THOMAS PAINE

1737-1809

Came to US

from London

in 1774.

With a letter of intro

from Benjamin

Franklin, began

career as a journalist.

THOMAS PAINEIn 1776, he published

Common Sense, in which he

argued that Americans must

fight for independence.

The pamphlet created a

mood

for revolution;

Paine enlisted

soon after.

His series of essays,

The American Crisis,

were designed to

build morale.

“We’re all British”

“Until today…”

PAMPHLET

An unbound

booklet,

without cover

or binding;

An

important

tool of

political

protest.

Open your books to page 144 or 160;

Have a dictionary, or use a phone –

BUT I’LL BE WATCHING!

Watch how I read the first paragraph

Let’s all do the second

Now you’re on your own!

EPISTLESPublic letters which

are written as an essay

in the form of a letter to

a general audience.

EPISTLESMaintains a personal approach

while arguing public ideas.

Non-fiction accounts that reflect

and

comment on the era.

ABIGAIL SMITH ADAMS

1744-1818

Wife of 2nd President;

Mother of 6th President;

1st couple to live in the

White House;

Recognized as a

pioneer of the

American’s women’s

rights movement.

LETTER VS EPISTLE

LETTER =

PRIVATE

EPISTLE =

PUBLIC

LETTER

Adams is telling her daughter what it

was like to live in an unfinished White

House. If she knew her letter would

become public, she probably would

have written the letter differently.

POINTS TO PONDER

Washington, D.C. was rural (that’s country, y’all!)

Adams was from Boston, one of the oldest and most

established cities in the Colonies. (How do you think she

felt??)

Milton was an area of Boston where Adams lived;

She begins the letter by telling her daughter of the

journey – this ain’t the Dan Ryan people!!!

MICHEL-GUILLAUME

JEAN DE CREVECOEUR

1735-1813

1st writer to compare

America to a melting pot;

Wrote letters describing

his experience as a

European immigrant in

America.

DE CREVECOEUR

Sailed to London and published

Letters From an American Farmer

in 1782;

Returned to US in 1783 to find

his farm burned and wife killed;

DE CREVECOEUR

Returned to France because of the

French Revolution in 1789;

Never returned to America,

although he continued to write

about his beloved adoptive country.

EPISTLES

PUBLIC

DE CREVECOEUR DISCUSSES

POVERTY AND FAMINE;

WOULD YOU WRITE TO YOUR

GRANDMA ABOUT THESE TOPICS?

CREDITS

Prentice Hall Literature, The American Experience, pgs 128-138;

Webster Dictionary

thechapmans.nl

is239.schoolwires.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Richard%27s_Almanack

dictionary.reference.com/browse/ aphorism

commons.wikimedia.org

discoverblackheritage.com

http://www.yourdictionary.com/abolitionist

luminist.org

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