1. Warming up with the blank seating chart challenge: How well do you know the members of this class?
2. Taking a speedy personality "test" and sharing one of your responses in a whip around
3. Meeting the course expectations and syllabus
4. Trying out a new kind of learning
The problem: You're listening to a Puritan sermon. You don't know anything about Puritans. You don't even understand their language. They're not even alive anymore. How can you use their lingo to unlock their lives?
Round 1: Find your match (if you have a word, partner up with the person who has its definition).
Round 2: Join up with 2 other partnerships to form a groups of 6. Make sure no 2 words are the same in any group. Share your words and definitions.
Round 3: Discuss the following question and have one person in your group share your thoughts with the class:
If these are the words that Puritans heard regularly at church, what do these words suggest about the Puritans? In other words, what do these words have in common? What do they suggest about the Puritans' relationship with their God?
Round 4 (whole class discussion): How does this approach to vocabulary differ from traditional approaches to vocabulary? What skills did you need to do this activity?
5. Following up by giving you access to a little more Puritan lingo: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
- Join www.vocabulary.com (for better words, not bigger words)
- 4th hour class code: http://vocab.com/join/1YSVD6N
- 6th hour class code: http://vocab.com/join/2G7JZ8G
HW:
1. Please ask your parents/guardians to read and sign the course syllabus by Monday, August 22.
2. If you have not yet done so, please complete the survey I e-mailed to you (you can also access it by clicking HERE). Urge your parents to complete theirs, too. They're technically not due until next Friday, Aug 26, but the sooner you fill yours out, the sooner I can be a better teacher to you.
3. Make sure you bring your LAPTOP to class every single day, starting Monday.
One question or inference about puritans based on the word obligation that I have is that they are very loyal and obligated to certain practices and ideas
ReplyDeleteIs this something violent based on the word fiery?
ReplyDeleteWhat do puritans get delivered from
ReplyDeleteThey were strict with their religious practices.
ReplyDeletePuritans have a strange relationship with God, but they're very "passionate" about it. Why do they use such violent words in their preaching?
ReplyDeleteI think that puritans were going through a difficult time and put their faith in religion to hopefully be brought into better times.
ReplyDeleteI feel they are mad at religion due to the darker words we got.
ReplyDeletePuritans are very passionate about what the believe in.
ReplyDeleteI think the word dominion means control
ReplyDeleteHow does their religion effect their lives?
ReplyDeletehow long were their sermons and why were they so intense?
ReplyDeleteI think that puritans are people who believe strongly in God and or are religious
ReplyDeleteThey seemed generally very angry based on their use of the word wrath.
ReplyDeleteWhat do Purtians believe in?
ReplyDeleteWhat is a puritan?
ReplyDeleteDo puritans rely on each other a lot?
ReplyDeleteFrom the love of their word restrain they sound very controlling
ReplyDeleteWhy do the Puritans view God in such a violent manner?
ReplyDeleteWhat do puritans have to do with deliverance?
ReplyDeleteWhat do the puritan's have to do with obligation
ReplyDeleteWhat did the puritans want to purify
ReplyDeleteTheir relationship with God was intense,their fear of him was stronger than their love and everything they did was to appease him.
ReplyDeletecultural hysteria: a common paranoia that affects the mental state of a group of people, whether the effect is from an unknown disease or just people being in their own head
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