Olaudah Equiano, Chapter 1

Access the Narrative of Olaudah Equiano in the Links column to the left.

 Read Chapter 1 and answer the following questions:

1.      Why is he writing his narrative?

2.      How does he seem to address stereotypes that whites might have of Africans?

3.       Describe the housing and furnishings of Equiano’s people.

4.       Agriculturally, how is Guinea worked by the “Eboe?”

5.      How do Equiano’s people create their calendar?

6.        What does he say about their practice of medicine?  About poison?

7.       In what ways does Equiano attempt to show similarities between his people and his English readers?

Due:  Friday, November 22

In-class Writing Assignment/Taylor's "Chesapeake"

1. Prepare for an in-class writing assignment on  Friday, November15:

Prompt:  What were some of the key characteristics of the English who settled North America in the early 17th century?

From the list below, choose either a and c or b and d to discuss:

     a. society
     b. economy
     c. religion
     d. mentalites

You should be able to discuss and give specific information for these areas from your notes on the sources.

Sources include:
 Taylor, "Virginia", Foner pages 54-69
 C. Hill, "Masterless Men"
 "Elizabethan Beliefs"
 Internet sources:  "Early Modern England," "Religion in England"


Limit your response to 1 1/2 pages.  You are not writing an essay per se, but, rather, an extended response.

Prepared notes will be checked for a grade on Friday while completing the writing assignment.


2.  Read Taylor's "Chesapeake Colonies", pages 138-157.  Take notes by section.

Due:  Monday, November 18

Religion in England

Take notes from the page found here:  http://www.elizabethan.org/compendium/7.html

Also, make sure to read and take notes at the links found at the bottom of the page on "Catholics", "Church of England" and "Calvinists".

a. Identify the key differences between Church of England and Calvinists.

b. What were the principle issues English Protestants had with Catholicism?

Structures of Thought in the Elizabethan Age

1.  Summarize each of the sections.

2.  What is familiar to you?  What is strange?

3.  What general comments can you make about Elizabethan thinking? Come up with three statements.

Classwork: Early Modern England

1. Look at this page: http://www.elizabethan.org/compendium/31.html

How would you characterize medical thought and practice in early modern England?

2.  Foods of the era in England are here:  http://www.elizabethan.org/compendium/38.html
Take notes.

3.  Identify at least three of the attitudes or mentalities of masters and servants here:  http://www.elizabethan.org/compendium/14.html

4.  Summarize the Elizabethan expectations for Apprentices and the terms of Indenture from here:
     http://www.elizabethan.org/compendium/80.html 


 Based on this small sampling about daily life in early modern England, how would you say that "the past is a foreign country"?


Complete in your notebook. 

"Virginia", part 2--For Period 2

Finish reading Taylor's chapter on Virginia.  Take notes.

Due:  Wednesday, November 6

"Masterless Men"

 1.  Read pages 39-50 from A World Turned Upside Down (found in the Links column on the left side of this page).  Make sure you use the page numbers on the book and not the pdf page numbers.

2.  Answer the Guided Reading Questions found here  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzc8LRLbBamTeEhGVFlqenlXTWM/view?usp=sharing  in your notebook.


 

Due Monday, November 4

An Investigation into a Disappearance

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BWXeIUoqhpVhZu2fxz-d3HeIPjpBIlpfY-Am5MYD7n8/edit?usp=sharing

The English, the Powhatans, and the Beginnings of Virginia

For Period 2:

1.  Complete Questions 3 and 4 by class time on Tuesday, October 29th.

2.  Read Taylor's "Virginia", pages 117-127.  Take notes.

Answer the following questions:

a. Analyze the document on p. 117. What event is depicted? What does this tell us about early English interactions with Native Americans?
b. Who seized the opportunity to lay claim to the mid-Atlantic seaboard of North America? Explain.
c. Describe sixteenth century (Elizabethan) England. What changes were shaping society and the
economy and how do the developments relate to colonial conquest?
d. Where is Roanoke and what happened there?


Due: Wednesday, October 30


For Period 8:

   Read the Foner text book, pages 54-69.  Take notes.

   Answer Review Question #2 found on page 90.

Due:  Wednesday, October 30

Why did European powers colonize the New World?

Assignment here:


https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c7fo484rrx0iAlrZC4XFw9Mtpi-sYxlz/view?usp=sharing


TEXT TO USE:

        a. Taylor's "New Spain", pages 51-66
 
        b. Foner, pages 34-48 (Period 8)

        c. Taylor, "Canada and Iroquoia" (Period 2)

        d. Primary sources on New Spain, New France, and the New Netherlands