“Upon the Burning of our House” by Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet is known as the first accomplished American poet.
She lived in Salem with a puritan family.
Her brother-in-law secretly published her poems.
A puritan wanted to purify the Church of England in 1560.
Puritans favored a plain style of writing—inversion (yoda-talk), which sentences with words out of order.
In the fire, she lost 800 unpublished writing works, a significant portion of her writing career.
End of poem turning point: Shouldn’t be valuing materialistic things, should keep eyes upon God & house in heaven.

“A Narrative of her Captivity” by Mary Rowlandson

She was captured by Native Americans and on the verge of starvation.
She was held captive for twelve weeks (3 months).
The Bible was the aid to her survival. (Hence, the large number of Biblical references within the story).
Cooking and sewing helped pass the time.
The Wampanoag warriors gifted her a knife.
She has three children; the youngest died, and the other two children were sold to others.
She was “auctioned” at redemption rock and freed.

Aphorisms - morals to live life by
Revolutionary ere = age of reason
Due to the spread of smallpox on the ships, Cotton Mather created vaccines (which he gave himself). He wrote the first essay on medicine and was a puritan minister and historian.
Puritans hated the idea of the vaccine, as it would interfere with God’s plan.
All factual information, not creative writing. Ben was a comic writer.
Ben left to go to Philadelphia, brothers’ contract.
Franklin’s aphorisms/virtues were more complicated than “what you learned in kindergarten.”

Persuasive writing needs a balance of facts and emotion.

The Middle Passage was the trade of raw goods, finished products, and enslaved people between America, Europe, and Africa.
Equiano was named after Gustava Vassa, who was a Swedish king.
Equiano was taught how to read and write, among the circumstances on the slave ships.
Oxygen levels were low in the slave ships; enslaved people thought they would be boiled and eaten, and the bathroom was troubling on the lower decks.

Anne Bradstreet is known as the first accomplished American poet.
She lived in Salem with a puritan family.
Her brother-in-law secretly published her poems.
A puritan wanted to purify the Church of England in 1560.
Puritans favored a plain style of writing—inversion (yoda-talk), which sentences with words out of order.
In the fire, she lost 800 unpublished writing works, a significant portion of her writing career.
End of poem turning point: Shouldn’t be valuing materialistic things, should keep eyes upon God & house in heaven.

She was captured by Native Americans and on the verge of starvation.
She was held captive for twelve weeks (3 months).
The Bible was the aid to her survival. (Hence, the large number of Biblical references within the story).
Cooking and sewing helped pass the time.
The Wampanoag warriors gifted her a knife.
She has three children; the youngest died, and the other two children were sold to others.
She was “auctioned” at redemption rock and freed.

Aphorisms - morals to live life by
Revolutionary ere = age of reason
Due to the spread of smallpox on the ships, Cotton Mather created vaccines (which he gave himself). He wrote the first essay on medicine and was a puritan minister and historian.
Puritans hated the idea of the vaccine, as it would interfere with God’s plan.
All factual information, not creative writing. Ben was a comic writer.
Ben left to go to Philadelphia, brothers’ contract.
Franklin’s aphorisms/virtues were more complicated than “what you learned in kindergarten.”

Persuasive writing needs a balance of facts and emotion.

The Middle Passage was the trade of raw goods, finished products, and enslaved people between America, Europe, and Africa.
Equiano was named after Gustava Vassa, who was a Swedish king.
Equiano was taught how to read and write, among the circumstances on the slave ships.
Oxygen levels were low in the slave ships; enslaved people thought they would be boiled and eaten, and the bathroom was troubling on the lower decks.