Chapter1 Literature of Colonial America.docVIP

Chapter One Colonial America(1607-1775) Teaching Objectives: Help Ss learn to understand the Literature of Colonial America Teaching Aids: ppt., blackboard, chalks, etc. Teaching Method: teacher’s explanation, interaction of Ss, questions, etc. Teaching Emphasis: Puritanism, the literary scene of this period Part One Historical background The first permanent English settlement in North America was at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. In 1630 the puritans established the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Independent War (1776-1783); the foundation of a Federative bourgeois democratic republic—the United States of America. The early settlers Christopher Columbus discovered the American continent in 1492. Captain John Smith reached Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. Puritans came the New England area, by Mayflower in 1620. The first settlement was established in Plymouth in 1620. Massachusetts Bay Colony was established in 1630. Puritanism in America Why did Puritans come to America?- to escape religious persecution - to reform the Church of England - to have an entirely new church * God’s chosen people * To seek a new Garden of Eden * To build “City of God on earth” Part Two The Definition of Literary Terms Colonial America Columbus found the new world in a voyage of 1492. The early 1600s witnessed the beginning of a great tide of emigration from Europe to North America. In November 9,1620, the Mayflower ship lands at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with 101 colonists: the establishment of the first American colony and the beginning of the strenuous settlement in the new world. The Native Americans possessed a tragic history of subjugation and bloodshed by those strangers from abroad. American Puritanism Puritanism was a religious reform movement that arose within the Church of England in the late 16th century. Under siege from church and crown, it sent an offshoot in the third and fourth decades of the seventeenth century to the northern English colonies in the New World– a migration that