Unit One

1 The standards are saying that we should understand the literary works by relating them to three things, their historical background, contemporary context, and as well as literature from other time periods.



2While living I want to live well.I know I have to die sometime,but even if the heavens were to fall on me want to do what is right.
There is only one God looking down on us all.We are all children of the one God.God is listening to me.The sun,the darkness,the winds,all are listening to what we now say..."

3This poem is talking about living right and living well even if you do die soon. Its also talking about how god is looking down on us and listening to what we have to say now.



4The Native Americans and The Purtians had two totally different types of views on God. The Native Americans believe in going to heaven and that god is looking down on us and the Puritans believe that everyone is basically going to hell except a certain few. For example because of Adam and Eve The Puritains believed everyone was born a sinner and Jesus didn't die for all. They also believed god saved only a certain few and there was no way to earn god's grace. For example saint Jonathan Edwards spoke in his sermons that "Natural man are held in the hands of god over the pit of hell. They deserve the fiery pit and are already sentenced to it. God is dreadfully provoked, his anger is as great towards them as to those that are actually already suffering the executions of this fierceness of his raft in hell." The Native Americans also believed there was one god looking down on us and that we are all children of god and the sun, the winds, and the darkness are all listening to what we say. For example in the poem I've recently just read it said "There is only one god looking down on us all. We are all children of the one god. God is listening to me. The sun, the darkness, the winds, are all listening to what we now say..."

5Puritians-The people who first came over to the us, they believed everyone was born a sinner, they also believed god was responsible for everything and people shouldn't concern themselves with such things.
Native Americans- the people who are indigenous to the Americas.
Jonathan Edwards-a priest who told sermons like Sinners in the hands of an angry god. He believed everyone was going to hell except a certain few.
Rationalist- a group of people in who wanted to explain nature through science and achieve order for self improvement.
Deism- Faith based on science and math. The people believed in god, not just as a power that controlled everything though.
Age of Reason- A time in the 18th century where people didn't except that god was responsible for everything.


6There is a very big difference between the Puritians and the Rationalist. For instance the Puritians are a very religious group of people. The Puritians believed that god was directly responsible for everything. The Puritians also believed that god was very angry with them and they didn't want to make him even more angrier by meddling into his business. The Rationalist though didn't believe that god was angry or that god was responsible for everything. The Rationalist sought out to improve their lives through science and mathematics. They believed that god created the universe but left it up to the people to figure out the natural laws. In today's society I have seen some of these same ideas in cases like, evolution.

7In the autobiography, Benjamin Frankilin starts keeps a notebook full of data to help himself get better with his moral perfection. This is a good example of a Rationalist because he is keeping data and analyzing things for himself instead of praying to god like a puritian would do.

8. My Thirteen Virtues
1. Staying out of trouble.
2 Staying on task at school
3 Not going to bed too late at night
4 Find a job
5 Stop smoking
6 Calm down, stop getting so angry so quick
7 Respect my peers
8 Study much more
9 stop procastination (very bad habit)
10 being more organized
11 make more money
12 order
13 tranquility

These are my thirteen virtues, I think if I can reach my potentials or goals if I follow what I say I'm going to do. These virtues would mak me a much better person in life and help me with my self improvment.

9. I adressed standard number one when I did the poetry with that native americans and showed the evidence. I also adressed standard number three when I did my thirteen virtues, when I did the Puritians vs the Rationalist and also the Puritans vs the Native Americans.

Georgia Performance Standards

I think the above standards means that we comprehend literature like short stories, novels, essays, and drama. It also means we need to show evidence as the babsis for interpretation to show that we understand.