American-Literature
AMERICAN LITERATURE KMHS ENGLISH DEPARTMENT 2015 - 2016 ...
The Beginnings of American Literature: Native American Traditions and the First Puritan Settlers THE PRE-COLONIAL PERIOD 1 ...
OVERVIEW Key Terms allusion Calvinism jeremiad Puritan Puritan plain TEXTS & CONTEXTS 1 The Pre-Colonial Period TIMELINE 1 ...
HOW THE WORLD WAS MADE A CHEROKEE MYTH The Cherokee were the first Native American tribe to accept citizenship in the United Sta ...
How the World Was Made The earth is a great floating island in a sea of water. At each of the four corners there is a cord hangi ...
and then another time; at last they had raised it seven handsbreadths so that it was just under the sky arch. Then it was right ...
THE SKY TREE A HURON MYTH The Huron (also called the Wyandot) lived in the Northeastern woodlands by the Great Lakes. Today, man ...
“The Sky Tree” In the beginning, Earth was covered with water. In Sky Land, there were people living as they do now on Earth. In ...
FROM OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION BY WILLIAM BRADFORD William Bradford (1590-1657) was born in Yorkshire, England to an affluent farmi ...
From Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford THE VOYAGE AND THE ARRIVAL Of their vioage, & how they passed ye sea, and of ...
under water; and for the buckling of ye maine beame, ther was a great iron scrue ye passengers brought out of Holland, which wou ...
Tuckers Terrour; but ye French & Dutch to this day call it Malabarr, by reason of those perilous shoulds, and ye losses they ...
season was shuch as he would not stirr from thence till a safe harbor was discovered by them wher they would be, and he might go ...
meat, made their beads, washed their loathsome cloaths, cloathed & uncloathed them; in a word, did all ye homly & necess ...
Another lay cursing, his wife, saing, if it had not ben for her he had never come this unlucky viage, and anone cursing his felo ...
might punish him. That if any thing, were taken away from any of theirs, he should cause it to be restored; and they should ...
THE FIRST THANKSGIVING They begane now to gather in ye small harvest they had, and to fitte up their houses and dwellings agains ...
UPON THE BURNING OF OUR HOUSE BY ANNE BRADSTREET Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) was the first female poet in the English language p ...
Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666 by Anne Bradstreet In silent night when rest I took, For sorrow neer I did not look ...
Raise up thy thoughts above the skye That dunghill mists away may flie. Thou hast an house on high erect Fram'd by that mighty A ...
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