Week 2: New Country, Unfinished
Business
The Antebellum Period:
Vocabulary Covered today:
Abolition: Abolition is the act of getting rid of something, like the abolition of slavery.
Polarization: Division into two sharply contrasting groups or sets of opinions or beliefs.
Turnpike: an expressway, especially one on which a toll is charged.
Revival: The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century in the United States. The movement began around 1790, gained momentum by 1800 and, after 1820, membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations whose preachers led the movement.
To the Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth a poem
by Phillis Wheatley (you can find this on page 41 in your binder) If you missed
class please read the whole thing.
William Legge, Earl of Dartmouth
Vocabulary words from poem:
Genial: friendly and cheerful
Faction: a small organized dissenting group within a larger one, especially in politics.
Mournful: feeling, expressing, or inducing sadness, regret, or grief.
Refulgent: shining brightly
Fane: a temple or shrine
Ethereal: extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world: heavenly
We learned about Phillis Wheatley. Here is a link to a summary of what was learned. If you missed class please read the whole thing. For everyone else, you can read it as a review.
https://npg.si.edu/blog/phillis-wheatley-her-life-poetry-and-legacy
Phillis Wheatley
We talked about Mark Twain and how most of his works
are satire.
Satire: the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
Mark Twain
Timeline Dates:
If you were not in class, please write these dates in your timeline on page 24 in your binder.
Timeline Dates:
1619 – First African slaves in America
1807 – Britain bans slavery
1824 – Britain and US negotiate a treaty recognizing the slave trade as piracy
1837 – Britain invites the US and France to create patrol to stop slaving, US declines
1835 – 1910 – Mark Twain
1818 – 1895 – Frederick Douglas
1885 – Huckleberry Finn published
1753 – 1784 – Phillis Wheatley
Scholar Challenges to be Completed by
September 25th (Page 5 in your binder):
1. Primary source study preparation for the Lincoln/Douglas debates
2. Complete timeline assignment.
3. Begin reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Plan carefully. This book is 18 hours on an audiobook. Don’t wait until the last minute to get started.
4. Continue your memorization work.
5. Read over the “Gettysburg Address” by Abraham Lincoln.
6. Journal: Why is slavery wrong?
Hero Insight
Instructions: (Should be about Five Minutes)
-Introduce your hero
in an interesting way.
-Give background of
your hero
-What did he/she
do? Did this make him/her a hero?
-Explain and present
accompanying topic in an interesting way.
-Use pictures, props,
etc!
Hero Insight Assignments
Week 3, September 25th:
Frederick Douglas/Life if a Slave
Ava B.
Week 4, October 2nd:
Eli Whitney/The Cotton Gin
Elise
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