American Lit
Read: (once you look at what you need to read, please look all the way below for the powerpoint, which has the biographical overview and homework assignment).
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For those of you who have the Dover Thrift edition Please note that The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is one of the textbooks required for class. |
For those of you who are relying on another edition of the book or a tablet or an online source. |
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Pages 1 – 2 |
Begins with Part One – Dear Son I have had pleasure in obtaining little anecdotes …. (Read four complete paragraphs) Until the paragraph that ends with Fortune being known to Him only whose power it is to bless to us even our affections. |
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Pages 5 (beginning with “Josiah, my father…”) all the way until page 14 where he writes “That want of modesty is want to sense. This, however, I should submit to better judgments.” (This part is located toward the top of the page). |
Begins with: “Josiah, my father, married young, and carried his wife with three children into New England….. Read until “That want of modesty is want to sense. This, however, I should submit to better judgments.” |
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Pages 62 beginning with “I had been religiously educated as a Presbyterian; and though some of the dogmas of that persuasion, such as the eternal decrees of God…” all the way until the top of page 71. The last words are “the might get clothes or victuals, exhorted them to be fed and clothed. – James ii.15, 16.” |
Begins with “I had been religiously educated as a Presbyterian; and though some of the dogmas of that persuasion, such as the eternal decrees of God…” Please read until… The last words are “the might get clothes or victuals, exhorted them to be fed and clothed. – James ii.15, 16.” |
Your Task:
Read the Autobiographical and Cultural Overview in the powerpoint link below.
Read the directions for the homework assignment in the powerpoint link below.