1. American Literature Thursday, October 2nd
Standard 2 & 3
Declaration of Independence and the Declaration of Sentiment Analysis
Ben Franklin’s Virtues Chart and Poor Richards Almanack on page 188
You will be keeping a virtues chart for one week and then writing a reflection on your discoveries.
Pick three aphorisms and describe how they each relate to you.
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2. From Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography…
My intention being to acquire the habitude of all these virtues, I judged it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once, but to fix it on one of them at a time; and, when I should be master of that, then to proceed to another, and so on, till I should have gone through the thirteen; and, as the previous acquisition of some might facilitate the acquisition of certain others, I arranged them with that view, as they stand [below]. TEMPERANCE Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. SILENCE Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

3. RESOLUTION
MODERATION
Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much
as you think they deserve.
FRUGALITY
CLEANLINESS
Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself;
Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.
i.e., waste nothing.
TRANQUILITY
INDUSTRY
Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common
Lose no time; be always employed in something
or unavoidable.
useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
CHASTITY
SINCERITY
Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to
Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly; and,
dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another’s
if you speak, speak accordingly.
peace or reputation.
JUSTICE
HUMILITY
Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits
Imitate Jesus and Socrates
that are your duty.

4. Vocab
Aphorism – a short, concise statement expressing a wise or clever observation or a general truth. A variety of devices make aphorisms easy to remember. Some contain rhymes or repeated words or sounds; others use parallel structure to present contrasting ideas.
The aphorism “no pain, no gain,” for instance, uses rhyme, repetition, and parallel structure.

5. Connotation - an implied meaning of a word. Ex
Connotation - an implied meaning of a word. Ex. Skinny and scrawny mean the same thing but if a person tells another person they are skinny it’s taken as a compliment while scrawny isn’t. Denotation - is the literal meaning of a word. Ex. Capitalism, greed, selfish