Greetings Sophomores!
This marks your first full week of the semester. This week we will continue our look at Puritan literature, contemporaries of Puritans and literature about Puritans. To begin our week, we will analyze the poetry of Edward Taylor. Taylor is interesting in that he only published one stanza from one of his poems during his lifetime. The rest were found over 100 years later and published posthumously. Two poems by Taylor that we will examine are "Upon a Wasp Chilled with Cold" and "Huswifery," the latter of which is in your textbook. "Huswifery" is a more complex conceit than the one "The Author to Her Book," so it will take a bit more effort on your parts to unravel its mystery.
We will also read excerpts from an infamous Puritan sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," by Jonathan Edwards. You will be expected to recognize the imagery in this sermon and discuss it as a form of persuasive writing/speaking. What sorts of appeals does Edwards make? How effective are they?
Also, we will examine and discuss testimony recorded by Cotton Mather in his book The Wonders of the Invisible World from an actual witch trial, the trial of Martha Carrier. You will be expected to judge the validity of the testimony and recognize instances of bias.
On Friday you will take a quiz on Lesson 13 Vocabulary, and we will review Lesson 14 words. We will also review commonly confused words and learn to differentiate between them.
See you in Class!
Table of contents for Wonders of the Invisible World
Mrs. SO
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