Guided Reading Unit 2 Unit 2: Voices of an Emerging Nation In Unit 2, you will meet the early Americans settlers who lived and wrote in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Directions: • • • • • Answer the following questions as you read or immediately after reading the assigned lessons. Lessons include the reading the book and the digital material in the OHS. Submit this completed document at the end of the unit. Type your answers directly on this document. Please use different, easy to read font color. Save this file as a Word-editable and readable format. Images files (e.g. PNG JPEG), web files (HTLM), and mac files (. pages) will not be scored. Unless otherwise specified, all answers must be in complete sentence / short paragraphs. All answers must be in your own words. DO NOT copy from the lessons or the web. Each question is worth 4 points. Points are awarded for accuracy, completeness, elaboration/evidence, and mechanics. 2.01 Introduction 1. List and describe three changes from the Puritan Era to the Enlightenment Era in the chart below. Concept What Changed 2.02 Ben Franklin 2. How does Franklin’s Autobiography represent the Enlightenment Era? Include at least two specific examples from the assigned reading in your response. 3. In Poor Richard’s Almanac, Benjamin Franklin presented aphorisms, many of which are still spoken today. Choose two aphorisms. Explain what each means and why each is still relevant today. 2.03 Thomas Paine 4. In the passages that was assigned, which argument in Paine’s Common Sense did you find most compelling? Why? 2.04 The Declaration of Independence 5. How does the Declaration represent Enlightenment thinking? Describe two specific examples. 2.05 Equiano & Wheatley 6. Equiano wrote in the first-person point of view. Why would he make that literary choice for this text? Do you think this is effective? Why? 7. Wheatley’s poem, “On Being Brought from Africa to America”? is rather controversial. Why do you think some readers would take offense to the poem? Include specific poem references in your response. 2.08 The Star-Spangled Banner 8. What American values are revealed in The Star-Spangled Banner? Describe two values and use specific examples from the anthem to support your answer. Unit 2 Reflection 9. Throughout history, literature has been used as a form of protest. Choose one selection from this unit and explain why it can be thought of as protest literature. Discuss what the author is protesting and why his/her format was effective.
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