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Anne Bradstreet Biography English III (11th grade) Assignments 3/30-4/3 Good Morning, students! Welcome to our virtual classroom! One of the best things you can do at home is READ. Fortunately, most of us chose novels before the Corona-cation started. If you have yours, GREAT! Use that. Those of you without novels have options. Check this out: Delaware County Library System: Stuck at home? Wish you had a library card so you could check out an eBook? No problem! Just email your name, address, phone number, and birthday to [email protected] and we'll email you back a barcode that you can use to access eBooks, audiobooks, magazines, newspapers, and all oF our other online resources! Comcast also has a program for some free (temporary) WiFi. Families without internet access can call this number (1-855-846-8376) to see if they are eligible for 60 days of free internet service through the Comcast Internet Essentials program. So we are encouraging you to do the following: 1. Read! Every day, for 20-30 minutes. Get comfy, grab a snack, and just read. No headphones or TV while you do it, OK? 2. Start and keep a Reading Journal. Entries should Be about the front of one page, each. We have included a “Reader’s Response: Talk ABout Books” sheet in case you can’t think of anything to write. Please don’t reuse topics! Select a new topic for each entry. If you’d like, you can post your Journal in the thread Below as a class comment, rather than writing on paper. None of this is mandatory and it will not Be counted for a grade. READER’S RESPONSE: Talk About Books Suggested topics: V Describe the setting for your novel. How much do the time period and/or the environment impact the characters or conflict? V Ask questions about things that confuse you or that you wonder about. V Describe your feelings about the characters, setting, or the events. V Copy down a short quote from a character and tell why you think it’s meaningful. V Describe your favorite part. Why did this passage appeal to you? V Make a prediction about what will happen next. Explain why you feel this way. V Tell how you would react if you were one of the characters in the story. V Agree or disagree with an action taken by a character. V Describe a part that surprised you. V Does the author use any strong imagery in the story (similes, metaphors, etc.)? Give examples and tell why you like them. V Write a letter from one character to another character, explaining how “you” feel about something. V Make connections! Tell about a time that you had an experience similar to one of the characters. V If you were turning this book into a movie, who would you cast for the parts? Be specific and explain why you chose particular actors/actresses. (Go beyond physical appearance) V Discuss some of the author’s use of literary devices: foreshadowing, flashbacks, irony, symbolism, etc. What effect do they have on the reader or story? V Explain what made you choose this novel. V Have you read other novels by this author? Compare/contrast the stories. V Is this book a sequel? Does it maintain, get worse, or get better than the preceding novel? V What lesson do you think the author is trying to teach? V Describe ways that characters are changing in the book. What is causing these changes? V List three personality traits of a character (i.e., stubborn, brave, loyal, pessimistic, etc) Explain where/how the story reveals these attributes. V Describe three songs that a character might have in their favorite playlist: how do these songs relate to the character’s personality or situation? V Describe three things that this character needs to “throw away.” What things could s/he do without in his/her life? V Analyze a relationship between two characters. Is it positive or negative? Are there MUTUAL feelings? V Is there a connection between the conflict and setting? Remember, Reader’s Response entries should be 1 page EACH. You should always refer directly to the text, and show your knowledge of the story by referring to characters by name. You may combine topics! Anne Bradstreet Biography First American poet Anne Dudley Bradstreet (1612 – 1672) was the first writer to be published in England’s North American colonies. Her book, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, was also published in London in 1650, making Anne the first female poet ever published in both England and the New World. She is the first Puritan writer in American Literature and notable for her large body of poetry and personal writings. As the daughter of Thomas Dudley, a steward of the Earl of Lincoln, and Dorothy Yorke Dudley, a wealthy Puritan family from Northampton, England, Bradstreet was a well- educated woman for her time, being tutored in history, several languages and literature.Both Anne’s father and husband would later serve as governors of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. At 16, she became the wife of Simon Bradstreet, a public official in Massachusetts. Anne and Simon, along with Anne’s parents, emigrated to America as part of the Winthrop Fleet, a major migration of Puritans that took place in 1630. Anne became the mother of eight children. Bradstreet wrote poetry in addition to her extensive duties as a wife and mother. Over the course of her life, she developed a uniquely personal style of poetry centered on her role as a mother, the sufferings of life, and her Puritan faith. Anne’s excellent education equipped her to write with authority about politics, history, medicine, and theology. Her personal library of books was said to have numbered over 9000, although many were destroyed when her home burned in 1666. BY JANICE CAMPBELL · PUBLISHED APRIL 10, 2017 · UPDATED MAY 12, 2017 https://excellence-in-literature.com/anne-bradstreet-bio/ Anne Bradstreet Biography by Ann Woodlief Painting by Ladonna Gulley Warrick Anne Bradstreet was born in 1612 to a nonconformist former soldier of Queen Elizabeth, Thomas Dudley, who managed the affairs of the Earl of Lincoln. In 1630 he sailed with his family for America with the Massachusetts Bay Company. Also sailing was his associate and son-in-law, Simon Bradstreet. At 25, he had married Anne Dudley, 16, his childhood sweetheart. Anne had been well tutored in literature and history in Greek, Latin, French, Hebrew, as well as English. The voyage on the "Arbella" with John Winthrop took three months and was quite difficult, with several people dying from the experience. Life was rough and cold, quite a change from the beautiful estate with its well-stocked library where Anne spent many hours. As Anne tells her children in her memoirs, "I found a new world and new manners at which my heart rose [up in protest.]"a. However, she did decide to join the church at Boston. As White writes, "instead of looking outward and writing her observations on this unfamiliar scene with its rough and fearsome aspects, she let her homesick imagination turn inward, marshalled the images from her store of learning and dressed them in careful homespun garments." Historically, Anne's identity is primarily linked to her prominent father and husband, both governors of Massachusetts who left portraits and numerous records. Though she appreciated their love and protection, "any woman who sought to use her wit, charm, or intelligence in the community at large found herself ridiculed, banished, or executed by the Colony's powerful group of male leaders."Her domain was to be domestic, separated from the linked affairs of church and state, even "deriving her ideas of God from the contemplations of her husband's excellencies," according to one document. This situation was surely made painfully clear to her in the fate of her friend Anne Hutchinson, also intelligent, educated, of a prosperous family and deeply religious. The mother of 14 children and a dynamic speaker, Hutchinson held prayer meetings where women debated religious and ethical ideas. Her belief that the Holy Spirit dwells within a justified person and so is not based on the good works necessary for admission to the church was considered heretical; she was labelled a Jezebel and banished, eventually slain in an Indian attack in New York. No wonder Bradstreet was not anxious to publish her poetry and especially kept her more personal works private. Bradstreet wrote epitaphs for both her mother and father which not only show her love for them but shows them as models of male and female behavior in the Puritan culture. An Epitaph on my dear and ever honoured mother, Mrs. Dorothy Dudley, Who deceased December 27, 1643, and of her age, 61 Here lies/ A worthy matron of unspotted life,/ A loving mother and obedient wife,/ A friendly neighbor, pitiful to poor,/ Whom oft she fed, and clothed with her store;/ To servants wisely aweful, but yet kind,/ And as they did, so they reward did find:/ A true instructor of her family,/ The which she ordered with dexterity,/ The public meetings ever did frequent,/ And in her closest constant hours she spent;/ Religious in all her words and ways,/ Preparing still for death, till end of days:/ Of all her children, children lived to see,/ Then dying, left a blessed memory. Compare this with the epitaph she wrote for her father: Within this tomb a patriot lies/ That was both pious, just and wise,/ To truth a shield, to right a wall,/ To sectaries a whip and maul,/ A magazine of history,/ A prizer of good company/ In manners pleasant and severe/ The good him loved, the bad did fear,/ And when his time with years was spent/ In some rejoiced, more did lament./ 1653, age 77 There is little evidence about Anne's life in Massachusetts beyond that given in her poetry--no portrait, no grave marker (though there is a house in Ipswich, MA).
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