1. Ms. Johnson English III Honors
Unit One Introduction
Ms. Johnson
English III Honors

2. Questions of the Times (pg. 21)
Who owns the LAND?
What makes an EXPLORER?
Are people basically GOOD?
Who has the right to RULE?

3. Puritan Beliefs: (Pg. 24-26)
Many of the settlers in the 1600s were the puritans
Puritans were a group of English Protestants who had sought to “PURIFY” the Church of England and return to simpler ways of worshiping.

4. The Enlightenment: (pg. 25)
In the 1700s, there was a burst of intellectual energy taking place on Europe that came to be known as the Enlightenment.
Enlightenment thinkers begun to question previously accepted truths about who should power the government.
Government by the people – on which people consent to the government limitations in exchange for the governments protection of their basic rights and liberties
Writing by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson shaped the American Enlightenment.

5. Native Americans: (pg. 24-26)
Native north American culture did not have any written language
Instead the history legends and myths are entrusted to the memory and passed from generation to generation
Oral Tradition: The practice of storytelling to pass a group’s memories, histories, and stories from one generation to the next

6. Exploration and Early Settlers: (pg. 27)
Christopher Columbus - wrote the first journals and letters which recounted his four voyages to the Americas which began in 1492.
His adventures opened the door to a century of Spanish expeditions in the Americas.
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca - wrote “La Relacion” Chronicled his eight years wandering through Florida, Texas, and Mexico.
He describes his encounters with people, the landscapes, and animals.

7. Exploration and Early Settlers cont.
Samuel de Champlin – sent by the French and Dutch. Was the “Father of New France” who in the early 1600s wrote vivid accounts of New England and the Iroquois
The early English settlers described their difficult and amazing new lives in letters, reports, and chronicles to friends and family back home.

8. Questions for Understanding:
What was life like in the Americas prior to the arrival of the Europeans? (pg. 23) 
What was the author’s definition of “A government by the people”? (pg. 25) 
How did the arrival of the Europeans affect the preservation of Native American Literature? (pg. 27)
Puritans were practical people who “valued hard work, thrift, and responsibility”. How do the writings of Cotton Mother and Jonathan Edwards reflect and interest in practical as well as spiritual matters? (pg. 29)

9. Unit One Introduction Vocabulary (pg. 24-35)
Colony
Persecution
Meditation
Colonist
Ideal
Propaganda
Chronicle
Democracy
Rational
Self-rule
Legendary Histories
Delegate
Subject
Patriot
Long house
Parliament
Motivate
Migration
Export
Monarchy
Indigenous
Import
Framer
Expedition
Raw Materials
Sermon
Alliance
Treatise
Tyranny