Know the following terms/concepts:
Creation story/origin myth, oral tradition, observational journal, hyperbole, Puritan Plain Style, constitution, autobiography, bias, subjectivity vs. objectivity, lyrical poetry, Puritanism, writer’s purpose/goal, description, self help narratives, plot, inciting incident, plot complication, rising action, climax, falling action, Freytag’s Pyramid, resolution, conflict (internal and external), characterization (direct and indirect), flat characters, round characters, stock characters, stereotypes, dynamic characters, static characters.
Know the following works of literature:
The Iroquois Constitution
The Navajo Creation Story
Anne Bradstreet, “To My Deare and Loving Husband” and “Upon the Burning of Her House”
Christopher Columbus, The Journal of the First Voyage to America
Ben Franklin, The Autobiography
John Smith, The General History of Virginia
Cotton Mather, The Wonders of the Invisible World
Arthur Miller, The Crucible
