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These are the presentations put together by members of the third hour class. Use this to study for your New World test Thursday!
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By: Brogan Bailey, Brady Eisenmann, Gage Jarrett, Mason Lorber, & Matt Shoemaker
ONATHAN DWARDS (1703-1758)
LIFE OF A PROTEGE
● East Windsor, Connecticut - smart and rich life ● preached sermons to playmates
● spoke Latin, Greek, and Hebrew before 12● graduated as Valedictorian from Yale at age 17
● master’s degree in theology
EDWARDS THE PURITAN
● became pastor of church at Northampton, Massachusetts in 1729 after his grandfather died● 1733 - helped start the Great Awakening in
colonial America ● 1748 - His preaching became very unpopular
● thrown out as pastor in 1750● died in 1758 shortly after becoming president of
what is now Princeton University
ANGRY YELLING BOOKS
● “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” - talked about god’s wicked punishments
● “The Freedom of the Will”- Adresses difficult questions about desire, choice, good, and evil
● “The Surprising work of God”- His own account of the mighty way in which God moved
among the people in Massachusetts
EXCERPT
“O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in: it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that you are held over in the
hand of that God, whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you, as many of the damned in Hell.” - from “Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God” by
Jonathan Edwards● shows his strict Puritan beliefs in punishment and Hell
Presented By: Tony, Dillon, Noah, Trace
ANNE BRADSTREET (1612-1672)
EARLY LIFE
● Northampton, England● Grew up in cultural circumstances
● Well-educated for her timeo tutored in history, several languages and literature
● Parentso Thomas Dudley
o Dorothy Yorke Dudley● Father and husband became governors of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony
ANNE BRADSTREET THE PURITAN
● Came to America in 1630 (Age 18)● Relied on faith that God hadn’t abandoned
her during her trip and early time in America
● Paralysis overtook her joints● Home was burnt down, but they rebuilt
later
Source: http://www.annebradstreet.com/anne_bradstreet_bio_001.htm
LITERARY WORKS
● Wrote about politics, history, medicine, and theology
● Anne’s most famous poemo “To My Dear and Loving Husband”
● Dialogueso much of her poems were based on the observation of the
world around hero focused on domestic and religious themes
● Anne’s published booko The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up In America
EXCERPT“Sometime now past in the Autumnal Tide,When Phoebus wanted but one hour to bed,The trees all richly clad, yet void of pride,Were gilded o’re by his rich golden head.
Source: The Complete Works of Anne Bradstreet (1981) “Contemplations”
❖ Phoebus is the main character in this short poem❖ Phoebus is preparing to go to bed ❖ He is very blonde, stated in the last line of the excerpt.❖ She very vividly describes her main characters in many of her poems and works
JOHN WINTHROP (1588- 1649)
By: Alexis Oetken, Ben Fairlie, Katy Roby, Autumn Trexel, and Shelby Miller
EARLY LIFE
● Edwardstone, Suffolk, England ● Rich parents
● 15 he entered Trinity College● 17 married the first of four wives
o First 3 wives died ● Studied law, served as justice of peace, and received a
government office
“JOHN THE PURITAN”
● Obnoxiously religious○ Trained himself
○ Self-proclaimed saint● Felt trapped by economic slump
● Went to America in 1629● Elected governor 1930
○ “Father figure”○ Re-elected 12 times
“JOHN THE PURITAN” CONTD.
● Put Anne Hutchinson on Trial○ Banished
● Six-week Fever in 1649○ Died
LITERARY WORKS
● The Humble Request of his Majesty's Loyal
Subjects● The First Planters of
New England
● A Model of Christian Charity
● History of new England
EXCERPT
EXCERPT CONTINUED
● Watched, judged, or looked up too● Becoming an example
● Setting standards for new world ● If they fail, others will learn from their mistakes
EDWARD TAYLOR(1642-1729)
Jenna, Lexi, Rylea, and Anna
EDWARD TAYLOR’S EARLY LIFE
● He was born in Leicestershire, England in 1642● The civil war there was still going on
● His mother died in 1657● His father died in 1658
● His poetry described where he lived● He became a teacher in Bagworth
● Refused to sign the Act of Uniformity
EDWARD TAYLOR THE PURITAN
● Worked as a teacher in England before his emigration to America
● Walked one hundred miles in the snow to his new home in Westfield, Massachusetts
● The village of Westfield lived in fear due to constant battles between the Native Americans and colonists
EDWARD TAYLOR THE PURITAN (CONTINUED)
● Out of his eight children, five died in infancy
● His wife died while she was still very young
● He remarried and had five or six more children
LITERARY WORKS
Huswifery● Someone longing to have a closer relationship with God
● Great comparisons and detail● Spinning wheel analogy
Ebb and Flow - a recurrent or rhythmical pattern of coming and going or decline and regrowth.
● Rising and fallingUpon A Spider Catching A Fly
● Spider weaving a web to catch prey● Satan trying to get man trapped through sins
● Spider= satan, Web= sins
AN EXCERPT FROM HUSWIFERY
“Make me, O Lord, thy spinning wheel complete.
Thy Holy Word my distaff make for me.
Make mine affections thy swift flyers neat
And make my soul thy holy spool to be.”● The man wanted to be closer to god
JOHN SMITH (1580-1631)
By: Kennedy Sass, Austin Haines, Dylon Kuster, Cody Adler & Sydney Logan
EARLY LIFE OF JOHN SMITH
● born to a farming family in Lincolnshire ● left home at age 16 become a soldier, traveling to France to
fight the Spanish ● After his return to England, he taught himself wilderness
survival techniques ● In 1600, he went to Hungary to fight with the Habsburg forces ● eventually made his way to America to help the British colony
of Jamestown.
LITERATURE WORKS
The General History of Virginia - Published in 1624
● First hand account of his experience in the New World
● Often exaggerated wrote in third person so not to seem like he is bragging.
● Talks about the English settlements hardships: lack of food, death, no housing, weather conditions and bad food.
● Sent back to England
A Description of New England - Published in 1616
About two voyages to to the coast of Massachusetts & Maine
Purpose: ● How could England make money in America.
● Smith would be a leader and expert in the area.
EXCERPT
● “ We attempted to catch them with a frying pan: but we found it a bad instrument to catch fish with:
neither better fish, more plenty, nor more variety for smal fis, had any of vs euer seene in any place so
swimming in the water, but they are not to be caught with frying pan.”
o encourage people to move to Americao exaggeration- makes it sound better than it is
o amusement