USING THE U OF CHICAGO LRS RUBRIC will help you device a claim for your multi-genre paper. What is the most important/interesting idea about Puritan literature? What do you realize about America as a result? These two questions are key to writing a good paper.

Monday

Introduction to writing a claim on our unit on the Puritans and early colonial-American literature. Use your notes on the Little Red Schoolhouse (LRS) approach to writing a claim, combining the most interesting/important idea with what you realize as a result of that idea.
HW: Write out your claim, typed, due tomorrow. You should also have your copy of the

Tuesday

Reading claims and revising them together, in class. Please be prepared to read your claim aloud, and to take notes on yours (and others' claims). We will then turn to selections from Colonial House.
HW: Plan out your reasons, writing answers to the question, "Why is your claim true?"

Wednesday

Watching the outcome of the reality-series, Colonial House. We'll also review a list of all the materials we've examined as part of this unit on pre-colonial American literature.
HW: You will want to develop direct evidence for each of your 3-6 reasons. You will need evidence from Miller's The Crucible, from Dorson's America in Legend, and from at least one additional source of your choosing. Essays will be due one week from today.

Thursday

Beginning the first draft of your Puritan essay, and I will also return your copy of the play.
HW: Review your annotations in The Crucible, as well as the feedback form on your annotations.

Friday

We will not have class on Monday due to the late start/early dismissal. Writing a first draft of the Puritan essay, due Monday. I will also return tests.
HW: You will read the essay aloud in class, to your peers, on Tuesday.