Colonial Period
The colonial period of America was filled with the explorations of different religions and the freedom to explore your religious tendencies. In this unit of American Lit, we learned about the puritans, rationalists, and Native American traditions. We read a poem by Anne Bradstreet, “The Burning of our House.” Some of the students chose to do the virtue chart that Benjamin Franklin did in 1726 so he could improve a specific thirteen virtues. We also analyzed a couple of Native American traditional poems.
The puritans were a religious group that believed that man existed for the purpose of fulfilling God’s needs on Earth. If men did not follow God’s will they would never achieve full happiness. The main goal of puritans was to protect and purify themselves from any …show more content…
They had similar stories to the christians. In one tradition we read, “The Sky Tree,” there was a village in the sky that all feasted on one tree. The chief became sick and it became pretty clear he was going to die. He told his wife, Aataentsic, his last dying wish was for her to cut down the tree. So she listened and went to grab her husband's axe. She cut the tree and it toppled in half and began following. She rushed back to her house and told her husband that she must follow the tree, because without the tree there could be no life. So she dove into the hole in the clouds where the tree once stood. The sea animals of earth saw her falling and they all rushed together to build her land to fall onto. The animals finished the land by the time Aataentsic landed. When she landed, so did some remnants of the tree. The tree pieces rooted into the ground and was set to start growing. Like the christians, the natives had traditions of an old village and a tree. A tragedy happened with the tree and the villagers had created something new. For the natives, it was American land, and for the christians it was
The colonial period of America was filled with the explorations of different religions and the freedom to explore your religious tendencies. In this unit of American Lit, we learned about the puritans, rationalists, and Native American traditions. We read a poem by Anne Bradstreet, “The Burning of our House.” Some of the students chose to do the virtue chart that Benjamin Franklin did in 1726 so he could improve a specific thirteen virtues. We also analyzed a couple of Native American traditional poems.
The puritans were a religious group that believed that man existed for the purpose of fulfilling God’s needs on Earth. If men did not follow God’s will they would never achieve full happiness. The main goal of puritans was to protect and purify themselves from any …show more content…
They had similar stories to the christians. In one tradition we read, “The Sky Tree,” there was a village in the sky that all feasted on one tree. The chief became sick and it became pretty clear he was going to die. He told his wife, Aataentsic, his last dying wish was for her to cut down the tree. So she listened and went to grab her husband's axe. She cut the tree and it toppled in half and began following. She rushed back to her house and told her husband that she must follow the tree, because without the tree there could be no life. So she dove into the hole in the clouds where the tree once stood. The sea animals of earth saw her falling and they all rushed together to build her land to fall onto. The animals finished the land by the time Aataentsic landed. When she landed, so did some remnants of the tree. The tree pieces rooted into the ground and was set to start growing. Like the christians, the natives had traditions of an old village and a tree. A tragedy happened with the tree and the villagers had created something new. For the natives, it was American land, and for the christians it was