Unit One: Early American Literature.. the declaration of independence

ELAALRL3 The student deepens understanding of literary works by relating them to their contemporary context or historical background, as well as to works from other time periods.

this standard explains what you should do when reading a book form a different time period, and how to compare them to now. whn reading a book form the old days it great to think about the old time like how they lived and what they did compared to now.


Native American
Oh our Mother the earth, Oh our Father the sky,Your children are we, and with tired backsWe bring you the gifts you love.Then weave for us a garment of brightness;
May the Warp be the white light of the morning,May the weft be the red light of the evening,May the fringes be the falling rain,May the border be the standing rainbow.
Thus weave for us a garment of brightness,That we may walk fittingly where birds sing,That we may walk fittingly where grass is green,Oh our Mother Earth, Oh our Father Sky.

This example tell what the natvie american used pray to and how they prayed. They used to pray to they earth and sky everyday. They used to pray for more sunlight and rain.

4. the different these two cultures are the way they worship god. The natives believe in god as the father of the sky. he is always happpy and he love his people by giving them gifts. on example from the poem is " That we may walk fittingly where grass is green".But the purtains believe that god was angry and he wanted to send people to hell. for example " god wrath towards you burn like fire".

5. Purtain- are people who believed that if you was a sinner you was going to hell.
the declaration of independence-showing independence
God's hands- is the only thing holding me up from falling to hell
age of reason- a place in time where people was finding the reasons for things
oringal sin-


6. The purtains believed that god was in control of everything. They believed god was the reason they did not fall to hell today. on the other hand the rationast believe that god was not the cause of everything. thats why they had the age of reasons to find the reasons for everything.

7. Ben Franklin improved his life like a rationalist. He did not ask god to help him with his life he did it his self. he took data and he mad a list of stuff to improve his life. " i made a lil book , in which i allotted a page for each of the virtues."

8. 1.money. you always need money no matter what it makes the world go round
2.family. you need family for them hard times
3.love. you got to love yourself
4.happy. never have a sad day cause you never know if that will be your last
5.basketball. thats my gateway to being happy
6.future. forget the past its no way to change but you can change your future
7.foucs. never let no one knock you off track stay foucs
8.patience.things will come just wait
9.trouble. stay out of trouble
10.motavation: always stay motovated
11. shoes. got to have the latest nikes
12.food. cant live without it
13. Home. need some where to live

9.in this unit i used a couple of the standards, like for evidence you can see i had to look into the sinners in the hand of god to find what they believed in. i also had to compare the autobiography to the purtains to show the differents.