MAPR - A Way to Read
Use quotes for evidence.
Refer to the Puritan terms that apply.
Everything on this map is useable on the test.
Today:
- pick your author & group
- divide up HW
HW:
- look back at your assigned text and review the main ideas
- discover more by answering these questions, to the best of your ability
Monday:
- be prepared to give a short presentation on your author to classmates who did not study your author.
Tuesday:
* Test on Puritanism
- quotation identification & explanation
- know the key Puritan traits reviewed (content & style)
- short essay (about connections)
Presuppositions - other connections
How might the difference between our values and the values of the author influence the way we understand the text? For example, what portions of the text might we as readers find objectionable, but which contemporaries might have found acceptable? Cite at least one specific example
The difference between our values and the values of the author might effect the way the reader views the text because for people who share common beliefs and values, it will mean more to them then someone who is apart of a different religion. They won't take it as serious.
By understand what those who are religious around us may be following and may beliee in.
How do the ideas and values in the source differ from the ideas and values of our age? Offer two specific examples.
The ideas and values differ because today we can deny others opinions without getting into a fight and killing others. In their time, you would get sent to jail or be killed if you failed to believe in what your society believes in.
Argument - What is the message?
Do you think the author is credible and reliable? Use at least one specific example to explain why.
I believe he is a reliable source to back someone up on the pros and cons for supporting God.
What is the intended audience of the text? How might this influence its rhetorical strategy? Cite specific examples.
Anyone is the attended audience because he is trying to get people to follow him as he is the best of them all, someone who cannot be avoided and to live life to the fullest and go to heaven, you must praise him.
How does the text make its case? What is its strategy for accomplishing this goal?
John Edwards is a very harsh and straight forward
Does the author have a thesis? What - in one sentence - is that thesis?
God is the almighty and if you do not follow him, you will suffer severe consequences as he is the strongest of all strong.
Relate - make connections
Choose another Puritan writer, then...
Which do you find more reliable and credible?
I find Bradstreets more reliable and credible because she shows it through experience and gives us all a true story to follow.
What major differences appear between them?
The difference is that Bradstreet presented it in an action, she expressed it through her life experince as Edwards wrote it like it was the Religios Bill of Rights. He wrote it as if you must follow these rules or you will suffer in these ways.
What patterns or ideas are repeated in both readings?
Edwards and Bradstreet both talk about how God can keep you alive if you follow him, he will lead you the way through hard times if you follow him strongly.
Motives - Who is the author?
What is at stake for the author in this text? Why do you think he/she wrote it? What evidence in the text text tells you this?
Edwards could be killed or held captive forever if the English find him and his writing as he is putting God over their own King. Also, he wrote it because he strongly believes that he is the way of life and everyone should follow his lead. The evidence in the text is generall the whole thing, he says continuously that God is good, God is great, God is the strongest of all strong and you will be sent to hell if you do not follow him.
What could be his/her place, based on the text, and why?
I could see Edwards as a preist, someone who would be high in their class system because the Puritans are all strongly into religion.
Who is the author and what is his/her place in society?
Edwards and he is a strongly religious man he was a preacher which are high valued people
