Thomas Paine the Crisis No 1

Thomas Paine "The Crisis No 1" GROUPS- ONE PER GROUP Team Members: ______Team Leader: ______Team Scribe: ______

1. What might Paine mean by a "summer soldier and sunshine patriot"?

2. Find and copy a quote that supports your interpretation:

3. Why does Paine feel people should work hard to attain freedom? Use a short quote in your response.

4. According to Paine, what had the colonists done RIGHT that would earn them God's good will in a battle? a. Eaten all their vegetables b. Prayed every day c. Tried really hard to avoid a war d. Paid their taxes

5. Find a quote to support your answer:

6. An anecdote is a short story included in a text used to illuminate, elaborate, or clarify a point. What point is Paine making with his anecdote of the boy and his father?

YOUR TURN: Write a new anecdote together that could replace Paine’s but still have the same effect on the reader/listener (of Paine’s time!)

7. What does a Whig support? What is a Tory?

8. Great writers use what we call "appeals"-- they may appeal to a reader/ listener's logic, or to his/ her emotion.

What logical points does Paine make? List 2-3 (QUOTE short phrases to support your answers)

What emotions does Paine evoke? List 2-3 (QUOTE short phrases to support your answers)

1 Decide as a group which type of appeal Paine is relying on MOST:

9. An analogy (see page 112) is a comparison between two things that are alike in certain respects. In what ways does the analogy of the thief to the British soldiers work, and in what ways doesn't it work? (In what ways are the British soldiers NOT like thieves?)

YOUR TURN: Write a new analogy for Paine to use instead of the thief/British one.

10. Paine’s signature style is his use of what I call ‘flip-flop’ sentences—clause series (antitheses) where he gives two or more sides to a point. Find 2 examples, and QUOTE them here:

11. Explain how this style, the two or even three pronged slaps might work on a reader/ listener better than other kinds of emphasis (repetition, rhetorical questions etc.)

12. Go back to Patrick Henry’s speech, and find an example of his use of the ‘flip-flop’ structure. QUOTE here:

13. Find a rhetorical question in Thomas Paine’s essay. (caution, not all rhetorical questions have question marks at the end!) QUOTE the question here:

14. Is there any difference between how Henry uses the flip-flop structure and how Paine uses it? What? (consider, how could you tell who wrote a paragraph if I only gave you a small bit with a ‘flip-flop’ sentence)

15. Is there any difference between how Paine uses rhetorical questions and how Henry uses them? What? (consider, how could you tell who wrote a paragraph if I only gave you a small bit with a rhetorical question)

16. Jonathan Edwards is certainly the master of imagery; but, of the two, Patrick Henry and Thomas Paine, who wins 2nd place? Justify- describe a few examples of imagery from each (remember, images are details that create imaginary pictures of things you could see, hear, smell, taste or touch), and then explain why one uses better or more imagery. List you evidence: