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Siteseen

Siteseen: Land of the Brave: Puritans

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview provides a description of Puritan beliefs and religion.
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eBook
Bill Carson

Puritan and Reformed Writing: "Huswifery"

For Students 9th - 10th
Full text of Taylor's poem, "Huswifery."
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Puritan and Quaker Utopian Promise

For Students 9th - 10th
This unit explores the documented perceptions of Native Americans, religious faiths, physical challenges of new lands and how the combination of immigrants and Native Americans shaped the New World. Click on "Activities" for related...
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eBook
Bill Carson

Puritan & Reformed Writings: "Our Insufficiency"

For Students 9th - 10th
Full text of Edward Taylor's poem, "Our Insufficiency to Praise God Suitably, for His Mercy."
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eBook
Bill Carson

Puritan & Reformed Writings: "The Cup of Blessing"

For Students 9th - 10th
Complete text of Taylor's poem, "The Cup of Blessing Which We Bless."
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eBook
Bill Carson

Puritan and Reformed Writings: "I Am the Living Bread"

For Students 9th - 10th
Full text of Edward Taylor's poem, "I Am the Living Bread."
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eBook
Bill Carson

Puritan and Reformed Writings: "I Go to Prepare a Place"

For Students 9th - 10th
Full text of Taylor's poem, "I Go to Prepare a Place for You."
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eBook
Bill Carson

Puritan and Reformed Writings: "He Sent a Man Before"

For Students 9th - 10th
Full text of Taylor's poem, "He Sent a Man Before Them, Even Joseph, Who Was Sold etc."
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eBook
Bill Carson

Puritan and Reformed Writings: "Things Present"

For Students 9th - 10th
Full text of Taylor's poem, "Things Present."
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eBook
Bill Carson

Puritan and Reformed Writings: "If One Died for All Then Are All Dead"

For Students 9th - 10th
Full text of Taylor's poem, "If One Died For All Then Are All Dead."
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Handout
Victorian Web

Brown University: Victorian Web: Puritanism in New England

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief explanation of the founding of the New England colonies by both Pilgrims and Puritans.
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Unit Plan
Bill Carson

Puritan sermons.com: Fire and Ice Why So Few Women?

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief discussion about the lack of women writers in 17th century Puritan culture.
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Unit Plan
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Wilderness: The Puritan Origins of the American Wilderness Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Thoughtful history from the National Humanities Center of important figures in the early conservation movement in America: Bradford, Morton, Edwards, Thoreau, Emerson, Muir, and Leopold. Follow-up study suggestions include students...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Pilgrims & Puritans the Pilgrim Home

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the common house that was home to Pilgrims. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Extra, Extra!! Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Newscast

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan will be an interdisciplinary lesson plan that involves both English Language Arts and Social Studies (History). The lesson plan will be primarily technology-based and also project-based that will have the young scholars...
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eBook
Bill Carson

Puritan and Reformed Writings: The Poems of Edward Taylor

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Biographical information with an emphasis on personality and poetic themes of Edward Taylor. Contains a list, opening lines, and links to Taylor's major works. Contains quotations from critics.
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Website
Bill Carson

Puritan and Reformed Writings: Cotton Mather

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Good overview of the life and thought of Cotton Mather. Summarizes his major contributions and lists some of his most important writings.
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Primary
Lumen Learning

Lumen: American and Puritan Literature: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

For Students 9th - 10th
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is a sermon written by British Colonial Christian theologian Jonathan Edwards, preached to his own congregation in Northampton, Massachusetts to an unknown effect, and again on July 8, 1741, in...
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Primary
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Early American and Puritan Literature: The Pilgrim's Progress

For Students 9th - 10th
The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come; Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream is a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan (1628-1688) and published in February 1678. It is regarded as one of the most...
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Handout
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Cambridge History of Eng and Am Lit: Cavalier and Puritan

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A wonderful website with a plethora of links to information on poets, Cavalier writers, the Sacred poets, the origin of the couplet, the lesser Caroline poets, as well as political writing.
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Unit Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Colonizing the Bay

For Students 9th - 10th
John Winthrop's "Model of Christian Charity" was delivered as a sermon aboard the Arabella, as the Puritans approached their destination of Massachusetts Bay in 1630. The speech spells out his vision of the society they hoped to create...
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Lesson Plan
University of California

The History Project: The Antinomian Controversy

For Students 11th - 12th
One of the most enduring myths in American history is the belief that the Puritans fled to America in search of religious liberty. Unfortunately, this belief is at best only a half-truth, The Puritans were strict religious people who...
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Utopian Promise: Anne Bradstreet

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
English immigrant in the New World, Anne Bradstreet became an acclaimed poet of Puritan New England. Click on "Anne Bradstreet Activities" for related artifacts and activities.
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Unit Plan
Washington State University

Washington State University: Timeline of American Literature 1700 1749

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A time line of social, political, and literary history of the period from 1700-1749, the end of the Puritan period. Contains information about Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, and Sarah Kemble Knight, Puritan writers of the time.

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