The Puritans Study Guide Questions- you must answer 1 "respond", 1 "recall", 1 "interpret", 1 "draw conclusions, 1 "apply", 1 "evaluate" and 1 "reading check"-use complete sentences, write neatly and use specific detail

“Of Plymouth Plantation”

1. Respond: If you had been making the journey on the Mayflower, what would you have done to prepare for life in America?

2.Recall: What were some of the hardships the pilgrims faced during their trip across the Atlantic and their first winter at Plymouth?

3. Interpret: What do their troubles suggest about the climate and landscape of Plymouth?

4.Recall: How do the pilgrims explain Squanto’s role in their experience?

5.  Interpret: What does this explanation suggest about the Pilgrims’ religious convictions?

6. Draw Conclusions: What do you think is the message that Bradford tried to convey in this narrative?

7.  Apply: How might the message have meaning for people today?

8. Evaluate: How was this account changed your impression of the pilgrims? Explain.

9.Reading Check: What did people like William Brewster and Miles Standish do to earn Bradford’s respect?

 10.Reading Check: Who is Samoset, and how do the Pilgrims meet him?

 

“Huswifery”/To My Dear and Loving Husband”- answer 1 "respond", 1 "recall", 1 "analyze", 1 "interpret", 1 "deduce", 1 "synthesize", 1 "distinguish", and 1 "analyze" use complete sentences, write neatly and use specific detail

1.Respond: Huswifery means “housekeeping.” Given the title, were you surprised by the content of this poem? Explain.

2. Recall: To what household objects and activities is the speaker compared in the first two stanzas?

3. Analyze: How do the images in the first two stanzas contribute to the idea of being “clothed in holy robes for glory,” stated in the third stanza?

4.Interpret: What images in this poem may have contradicted the puritan requirement that clothing be dark and undecorated?

5. Deduce: What do these images suggest about the speaker’s feelings about God?

6. Synthesize: What household task or process might Taylor describe if he were writing this poem today?

7. Respond: What is your image of Anne Bradstreet after reading this poem? Does she fit your concept of a Puritan? Explain.

8. Recall: What does the speaker value more than “whole mines of gold”?

9. Distinguish: What other images suggest the richness and abundance of the love the speaker and her husband share?

10. Analyze: What is the apparent contradiction in the last two lines?

 

 “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” “Sermon” -answer 1 "respond", 1 "recall", 1 "interpret", 1 "classify", 1 "evaluate" and # 5 and 9 use complete sentences, write neatly and use specific detail

1.Respond: How might you have reacted to his sermon if you had been (a) a “Puritan,” (b) a Native American, (c) another leader of the Great Awakening? Explain.

2.(a) Recall: According to the opening paragraph, what keeps sinners from falling into hell?

3. Interpret: According to Edwards, what do his listeners mistakenly feel deeps them from falling into hell?

4.(a) Recall: what words in the sermon’s title suggest the emotional focus of Edwards’s message? (b) Analyze: What additional traits does Edwards attribute to God as the sermon progresses?

4.(a) Recall: Toward the end of the sermon, what does Edwards say sinners can obtain?

5.  Analyze cause and Effect: What must sinners do to obtain these things?

6.(a) Classify: Note at least two images of natural destruction that Edwards uses to depict the wrath of God.

7. Evaluate: Why would images of the power of nature be particularly appropriate to Edwards’s message?

8..Evaluate: Given his purpose and the audience of worshipers to whom he spoke, do you think Edwards’s sermon was effective? Why or why not?

9.What point of view or message is Edwards conveying in this sermon?