American Studies.
Week Two
Monday, August 26, 2024 6:22 AM
Monday
Development of the Chesapeake and the Origins of Southern Culture
Jamestown Settlement
List of Jamestown Settlers and Professions
The Chesapeake Colonies- Keynote presentation
Homework- Finish the modals, answer these four questions on the Chesapeake in perfect paragraph format, and be ready for a quiz tomorrow.
Chesapeake and Southern colonies
Learn
Early English settlements - Jamestown
Jamestown - John Smith and Pocahontas
Jamestown - the impact of tobacco
Jamestown - life and labor in the Chesapeake
The West Indies and the Southern colonies
Lesson summary: Chesapeake and Southern colonies
Slavery in the British colonies
Slavery in the British colonies
Lesson summary: Slavery in the British colonies
1. What was the reason for the development of the Chesapeake colonies? Was it religious? Financial? How do you think this will shape the society?
2. What were the reasons the English colonies transitioned from using indentured servants to using enslaved Africans as their primary source of labor?
3. Do you think slavery would have been as widely used in the British Empire if King Charles and King James had not benefitted financially from the Royal African Company? Why or why not?
4. Why do you think white colonists responded with such fear and paranoia to the possibility of a slave revolt, even in situations where there was no evidence of conspiracy?
Tuesday
The Chesapeake Colonies- Keynote presentation cont.
The Southern Gentleman
“White servants had not yet been brought over in sufficient quantity. Besides, they did not come out of slavery, and did not have to do more than contract their labor for a few years to get their passage and a start in the New World. As for the free white settlers, many of them were skilled craftsmen, or even men of leisure back in England, who were so little inclined to work the land that John Smith, in those early years, had to declare a kind of martial law, organize them into work gangs, and force them into the fields for survival.” - Zinn
“One thing is clear for sure: as Locke had said, “Trade is wholly inconsistent with a gentleman’s calling.”
The Medieval Worldview
The Great Chain of Being
Coming with them from Europe is an ethnocentrism and rigid social hierarchy
European elites also categorized the lower classes as "savage." The wandering rural poor of Europe bore many cultural traits of an alien, "uncivil," and ungoverned people whose peripatetic ways and fitful work habits were regarded contemptuously by their "betters" as requiring reform by means of involuntary servitude. The metropolitan merchant elite and rural gentry equated "civilization" with a stable, hierarchal social order that "superior" aristocracies imposed on the bestial and depraved lower classes of their respective realms. Early modern elites, thereby, fused race, culture, authority, and class.
Small Group Activity (20 min.): Your group will create a chart that outlines the development of the middle, Chesapeake and southern colonies. What are the social, economic and political/religious traits of each region? Use your notes from the reading.
Homework- View and take notes on following links. Prepare for a quiz on the New England Colonies.
Learn
Society and religion in the New England colonies
Politics and native relations in the New England colonies
Puritan New England: Massachusetts Bay
Lesson summary: New England and Middle colonies
Developing an American colonial identity
Wednesday
Quiz: New England Colonies
Essential Questions:
-How do the North and the South develop two distinct cultures?
-What principles are the North and South founded upon?
The Puritan Mindset -Keynote Presentation
Homework- Read through the background of the “City Upon a Hill” speech in order to understand the context. After you have read through the background, read Winthrop’s “City Upon a Hill”.
Thursday and Friday
The Puritan Mindset- Keynote cont.
Read the Following Links and Discuss:
- Why and how did the Puritans value education?
The Little Commonwealth - The building block of Puritan Society.
- What was the Little Commonwealth and how did it function?
- How did the ideals of the Little Commonwealth help tie together family, Church and State?
Understanding Puritan New England
Review the background of the “City Upon a Hill” speech in order to understand the context. After you have read through the background, read Winthrop’s “City Upon a Hill”, and discuss what Winthrop wanted to accomplish/establish through this speech.
Introduction to the Rhetorical Analysis
SPACECAT - The Rhetorical Situation
The Rhetorical Analysis Format
Rhetorical Analysis Example - Article
Introduction to Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
Reading: Pick out the most important goals for the Puritan community in Winthrop’s speech.
What does John Winthrop's sermon "A Model of Christian Charity," commonly referred to as "City upon a Hill" reveal about the Puritan purpose of establishing a colony in the New World?
John Winthrop's City upon a Hill, 1630
Now the onely way to avoyde this shipwracke and to provide for our posterity is to followe the Counsell of Micah, to doe Justly, to love mercy, to walke humbly with our God, for this end, wee must be knitt together in this worke as one man, wee must entertaine each other in brotherly Affeccion, wee must be willing to abridge our selves of our superfluities, for the supply of others necessities, wee must uphold a familiar Commerce together in all meekenes, gentlenes, patience and liberallity, wee must delight in eache other, make others Condicions our owne rejoyce together, mourne together, labour, and suffer together, allwayes haveing before our eyes our Commission and Community in the worke, our Community as members of the same body, soe shall wee keepe the unitie of the spirit in the bond of peace, the Lord will be our God and delight to dwell among us, as his owne people and will commaund a blessing upon us in all our wayes, soe that wee shall see much more of his wisdome power goodnes and truthe then formerly wee have beene acquainted with, wee shall finde that the God of Israell is among us, when tenn of us shall be able to resist a thousand of our enemies, when hee shall make us a prayse and glory, that men shall say of succeeding plantacions: the lord make it like that of New England: for wee must Consider that wee shall be as a Citty upon a Hill, the eies of all people are uppon us; soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his present help from us, wee shall be made a story and a byword through the world, wee shall open the mouthes of enemies to speake evill of the wayes of god and all professours for Gods sake; wee shall shame the faces of many of gods worthy servants, and cause theire prayers to be turned into Cursses upon us till wee be consumed out of the good land whether wee are going: And to shutt upp this discourse with that exhortacion of Moses that faithfull servant of the Lord in his last farewell to Israell Deut. 30. Beloved there is now sett before us life, and good, deathe and evill in that wee are Commaunded this day to love the Lord our God, and to love one another to walke in his wayes and to keepe his Commaundements and his Ordinance, and his lawes, and the Articles of our Covenant with him that wee may live and be multiplyed, and that the Lord our God may blesse us in the land whether wee goe to possesse it: But if our heartes shall turne away soe that wee will not obey, but shall be seduced and worshipp other Gods our pleasures, and proffitts, and serve them, it is propounded unto us this day, wee shall surely perishe out of the good Land whether wee passe over this vast Sea to possesse it;
Therefore lett us choose life,
that wee, and our Seede,
may live; by obeyeing his
voyce, and cleaveing to him,
for hee is our life, and
our prosperity.
Homework- Write a rhetorical analysis on Winthrop’s “City Upon a Hill”, and revise.