English 4371: Cultural Encounters

Householder, fall 2005

11/22/05: From encounter to settlement

 

 

  1. Revisit Cotton’s metaphor of “plantation.” 

 

 

  1. From encounter to settlement: William Wood’s New England’s Prospect (1634).

 

 

    1. Settlement in New England. 

 

 

 

 

    1. Encounter vs. settlement. 

 

 

 

                                                              i.      Continuities. 

 

 

                                                            ii.      Changes. 

 

 

 

                                                          iii.      The overall design. 

 

 

 

                                                          iv.      Wood’s apparently objective tone. 

 

 

 

    1. Some recurrent themes and other curiosities. 

 

 

                                                              i.      Technology and supernatural power

 

 

 

                                                            ii.      Gender and cultural difference

 

 

 

                                                          iii.      The “small nomenclature”

 

 

  1. Thesis statement workshop

 

    1. Write out your thesis statement

 

    1. Circle the thesis subject.  Underline the thesis verb.

 

    1. Box the key terms or ideas that will be defined/explained/developed in the body of your argument.

 

 

Conclusion:

 

 

 

Next time:  Bring four copies of your “final-draft quality” (i.e., as though your grade depended on it) working draft to class.