American Literature Module 3.1

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Study Guide: American Literature (Excellence in Literature, English 3)

Focus Text: Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin

Honors: The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson

Letters From An American Farmer by J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur

Or https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/letters-from-an-american-farmer-by-crevecoeur/

Context Resource Links

These links represent only the online resources referenced in this module. Instructions, background information, offline resources, and assignments are all found in the Excellence in Literature study guide listed above.

Readings

• https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/democratic-origins-and-revolutionary-writers/

Jonathan Edwards:

• https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/personal-narrative-by-jonathan-edwards-2

Cotton Mather:

• https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/satisfaction-in-god-by-cotton-mather

William Bradford:

• https://pilgrimhall.org/edu_wm_bradford_pen_person.htm
• http://www.histarch.uiuc.edu/plymouth/bradford.html
• http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24950

John Winthrop:

• https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/christian-charity-john-winthrop/
• or http://www.winthropsociety.com/doc_charity.php (translated to modern spelling)

Roger Williams:

• https://archive.org/details/keyintolanguageo04will

The Author’s Life

• https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/benjamin-franklin-bio-1911-eb
• https://www.ushistory.org/franklin/index.htm
• http://learn.fi.edu/franklin/
• https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/meet-benjamin-franklin/
• http://www.benfranklin300.org/online_exhibitions.html

Poetry

Anne Bradstreet 

• https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/anne-bradstreet-poetry/
• https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/anne-bradstreet-bio/

John Newton: “At the Close of the Year”

• https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/close-of-the-year-john-newton/

Phillis Wheatley

• https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/to-sm-by-phillis-wheatley/

William Cowper “Light Shining Out of Darkness”

• https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/light-shining-out-of-darkness-by-william-cowper

Audio

• https://amzn.to/3tHAFOt
• http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1611.htm

Video essay

• https://www.c-span.org/series/?americanWriters

Visual Arts

• https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/art/artifact/Sculpture_21_00008.htm
• https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/art/artifact/Painting_33_00021.htm

Music

• https://www.fi.edu/history-glass-armonica
• http://learn.fi.edu/franklin/musician/virtualarmonica.html
• http://www.glassarmonica.com/
• https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/glass-armonica-tchaikovsky/
• http://gfhandel.org
• http://www.aam.co.uk

Historic Context

• http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/
• https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/ch-3-outline-of-us-history/

Places to Go

• https://www.plimoth.org
• https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org
• https://www.osv.org
• https://www.ushistory.org/tour/franklin-court.htm
• https://benjaminfranklinhouse.org

Quotes

• https://www.ushistory.org/franklin/quotable/index.htm

Week 2 assignment model

• Benjamin Franklin’s 13 Virtues
• https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/virtue-education-and-the-electorate/

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