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During Todays LessonLearn about the continued influence of religious thought in early American society and its attempt to answer the questions What is an American? How should an American act? by reading Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards.Identify the purpose and tone of Edwards sermon and explain his use of figures of speech to persuade his intended audience. You will show your learning by: Completing a dialectical journal.Writing a summary of Edwards sermon.

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry GodBy Jonathan Edwards

Reflection: Fear & MotivationMany people would agree with Thomas Hobbes that fear is one of the most powerful motivators of human behavior. According to this view, fear of punishment makes us follow laws and instructions. TOPIC SENTENCE: Do you agree that fear is the greatest motivator? INTRODUCE EVIDENCE: Why or why not? EVIDENCE: Support your answer by providing examples from your own life and experiences. ANALYSIS: How do your examples prove or support your opinion?Have students Think and Write for 5 MINUTES. After 5 minutes, check if they need 2 more minutes max. After time is up, have students share with partners. Call cards to have students read reflections out loud. 3WHAT ARE THE MOST COMMON EARLY AMERICAN LITERARY GENRES?Sermons- A talk on a religious or moral subject, esp. one given during a church service and based on a passage from the Bible.Autobiographies-An account of a person's life written by that person.Political Documents and Treatises: A written work dealing formally and systematically with ideas about government and politics.Journals/Diaries: Writing which kept a daily record of events and experiences.Tone: the attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a workAuthors set a TONE or MOOD in literature by conveying an emotion or emotions through words. Objective (Informational) v. Subjective (Emotional)

Tone is dependent on diction (word choice) and style. Identify the purpose and tone of Edwards sermon and explain his use of figures of speech to persuade his intended audience. How do authors set the TONE in literature?

TONE TOOL:

Use this to help you identify specific tone of a text.

Step 1: Is it neutral, positive, or negative?

Step 2: Go through the list and find appropriate and specific word.

Lets practicePredict: What is the tone?So that, thus it is that natural men are held in the hand of God, over the pit of hell; they have deserved the fiery pit, and are already sentenced to it; and God is dreadfully provoked. and they have done nothing in the least to appease or abate that anger. but look at other things, as the good state of your bodily constitution, your care of your own life, and the means you use for your own preservation. your own care and prudence, and best contrivance, and all your righteousness, would have no more influence to up hold you and keep you out of hell, than a spiders web would have to stop a fallen rock. If God should only withdraw His hand from the floodgate, it would immediately fly open, and the fiery floods of the fierceness and wrath of God, would rush forth with inconceivable fury, and would come upon you with onmipotent power.

Call cards and have each student read the sentence. After reading ALL sentences, have them use the tone list to predict the tone of the sermon. 7Predict: What is the tone?The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provokedYou are ten thousand times more abominable in His eyes than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours.It is to be ascribed to nothing else, that you did not go to hell the last night; that you suffered to awake again in this world, after you closed your eyes to sleep.nothing that you can do, to induce God to spare you one moment

Before you watch preview video, set up circle map. Jonathan EdwardsAs you watch video, fill in circle map with important information about Edwards background.

Show video, as students watch, have them fill in the circle map with important information on the authors background. 10After you watch preview video, use circle map info to write background paragraph. Jonathan EdwardsAs you watch video, fill in circle map with important information about Edwards background.Use the following paragraph frame:

_______can be described as ______. He was born________ and spent most of his life________. While ________, he became interested in ________.Additionally, ________________. His writing attempts to ______________ by _______________.Have students use circle map to write a paragraph on Jonathan Edwards.11Before you read, consider our purposeIdentify the purpose and tone of Edwards sermon and explain his use of figures of speech to persuade his intended audience. As you read 1st readWhat is Edwards primary purpose in this sermon? In other words, what is he trying to accomplish?What is his central claim or argument?How does he use figurative language or figures of speech to accomplish his purpose and communicate his argument?Figurative Language: Language based on some sort of comparison that is not literally true. For example, She hammered through her homework for three hours. Simile: comparison uses like or as. i.e. You are like are rose.Metaphor: comparison that does not use like or as. i.e. You are a rose.Personification: gives an object human qualities. The rose waltzes in the breeze.

As you read 2nd readMARGINALIA: Explain your annotations* Identify and Summarize main Ideas & FIGURES OF SPEECH: i.e. This explains/compares that___. Respond to Ideas: i.e. I think/ wonder/ understand/ agree____.? Clarify questions and confusion: i.e. I dont understand ____. What does ___ mean? I wonder why____.CIRCLE Words that convey tone.

After you readUse your ANNOTATIONS to explain the main idea of the sermon and identify how Edwards uses figures of speech and tone to achieve his intended purpose byCompleting the SOAPS with pods Analyzing figures of speech & tone through the Dialectical Journal working with Partners in Lines of Communication.Writing a summary of the text Individually.