Historical Context
The social, political, cultural, economic, and environmental situations that influence events or trends during that time.
What is historical context?
"The Earth on Turtle's Back" originates from this Native Nation.
Who are the Onondaga?
Who is William Bradford?
What is Puritan Plain Style?
What is predestination?
What are the questions to ask for historical context?
"The Earth on Turtle's Back" explains the origin of this.
This holiday's first celebration is recorded in Of Plymouth Plantation.
What is Thanksgiving?
Paired, rhyming lines in a poem.
What is a couplet?
This prefix literally translates to "god."
What is theo-?
What is Protestantism?
Stories that are passed down within a culture that contain history, tradition, and wisdom.
What is oral literature?
This document established a self-governing society for the first time in the New World.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
A speech given from a pulpit in a house of worship.
What is a sermon?
Sola Scriptura, the practice that the Bible is the ultimate authority, is Latin for this.
What is "by Scripture alone?"
Event that ultimately led to the decline, genocide, and assimilation of Native Americans.
What is the Age of Exploration?
In the Onondaga, those tasked with holding ceremonies and keeping traditions alive.
Who are Faith Keepers?
Of Plymouth Plantation is considered this type of resource.
What is a primary source, narrative history, OR a manuscript?
Rhetoric, Aristotle's argumentative technique, is also called this.
What is the art of persuasion?
This phrase can be used to write or identify logos.
What is if/then/therefore?
Sect of Protestantism where the king of England is the head of the church.
What is the Church of England/Anglican Church?
Collective past and events shared by a particular group or culture.
What is shared history?
These two documents were famously influenced by the Mayflower Compact.
What are the US Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution?
Coined by John Winthrop, a foundational, heightened philosophy of the Puritans.
What is the City Upon a Hill?
A reference to a well-known thing or event of historical, literary, or cultural significance.
What is an allusion?