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Native American Traditions
The Oral Tradition
Shaping the New World
The American Revolution
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Identify four kinds of traditional Native American works that are considered to be the origins of American Literature
What are Myths, legends, tales, and songs
100
Define Oral Tradition
What is oral literature
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List four kinds of works written by puritans.
What is sermons, colonial histories, personal diaries, and Devotional poems.
100
Identify two purposes of the American Revolution
What is a. served as a political revolt against English rule B. also as a call for the new nation to define itself.
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Explain how Native American religions were alike.
What is all religions had a reverence for nature, which often was viewed as a spiritual as well as a physical mother.
200
Define Narative
What is a story told in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama
200
What was the author's main purpose in writing A journey through Texas?
What is to describe the new land.
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How did the Declaration of Independence serve the two purposes of the American Revolution.
The first part of the Declaration is an indictment against the British. The second part defines the nation
300
How did the Iroquois League of Nations differ from many other tribal groups?
What is they wanted peace
300
Define Chronological order
What is The order in which the events occured
300
Compare Huswifery and To my dear and loving Husband
What is they are both talking about God.
300
What made Benjamin Franklin's writing more accessible to a wide range of readers?
What is the printing press.
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How did the Iroquois Constitution reflect the importance of Nature to the Iroquois
What is comparing government to the tree.
400
Define Voice.
What is determines the point of view from which events are told.
400
According to Edward's Sinners in the hands of an angry God, what is the sinners only hope?
What is to undergo "A great change of heart, by the mighty power of the Spirit of God upon your soul"
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Why was the literature of the revolutionary period mostly nonfiction
The founders of the new nation wanted to engage citizens in forming a viable political system. To do so they needed voters to be educated and informed. Therefore most literature from this time is non fiction.
500
Identify the parents of the people in The Osage Creation Account?
What is mother- moon Father- sun
500
Define theme. What was a common theme of Native American Literature.
What is a central message or perception about life revealed through a literary work. Nature
500
Describe three purposes that explorers and early settlers had for writing.
a. describe the new land and encourage Europeans to look Westward. b. Influence political decision making in the mother countries, since the governing authorities were far away and had little understanding of the conditions in the new lands. c. to record what was actually occurring for future readers.
500
Explain the Main difference between the Declaration of Sentiments and the Declaration of Independence.
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