Examining Puritan Hysteria: August 24, 3016

Focus: What did the Puritans fear, and what did they do to feel safe?

1. Warming up with musical chairs (you need your target on your desk)

• Round 1: Draw a picture of you as a Puritan. Include a thought bubble.

• Round 2: Circle what you think is important/indispensable. Explain why it's important.

• Round 3: Take a statement or a pattern and turn it into a question.

2. Forming groups of 3-4 based on shared phobias, such as fear of spiders, snakes, heights, etc.

• Share, kids: What did people circle/comment on your target?

• Discuss the three big questions from yesterday's Overview: Nightmare on Puritan Street; type your responses on the documents you copied into your "Cultural Hysteria" folders yesterday. 

• Complete the collaboration self-evaluation linked HERE. Make a copy and place it inside your American Literature folder. Note: This grade is recorded but bears no weight on your final grade.

3. Listening to Jonathan Edwards' "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" and sketching the images that affect you the most

4. Enjoying a gallery walk of your images and a little freewriting:

Start a new doc inside your "Cultural Hysteria" folder called "Freewriting"

• What did the Puritans fear, and what did they do to feel safe?

• What do Americans fear the most today? What do we do to feel safe?

• What do you, personally, fear? What do you do to feel safe?

Following up by sharing one sentence.

HW:
1. Have a look at the cultural hysteria project, linked HERE.

2. Have you filled out the survey yet? If not, please do so by Friday.