Age of Reason
Age of Reason
Age of Reason Historical Background information
Age of Reason Historical Background worksheet (sent in GoogleClassroom)
Age of Reason Literary Works and Notes
The Diary pg. 571
TEXT
The Journal pg. 590
Dictionary of the English Language pg. 648
A Modest Proposal pg. 617
Writing Activities
Due on
- Write 3 paragraphs (roughly 1 page) on the Fire from the perspective of a young child. Use descriptive and sensory language.
Dictionary Assignment
Pick ONE of the following words and create a dictionary entry to best define the word. Your dictionary entry needs to have the following components:
- Word
- Part of speech
- Definition
- Word used in a sentence
- Etymology or history/background to the word
Example:
Student: Noun: a person formally engaged in learning, especially one enrolled in a school or college; pupil
Bobby is a student at Yale; he is studying to become a doctor.
Etymology: late 14c., from Old French estudient "one who is studying," from Middle Latin studiare "to study," from Latin studium
Words
Acouasm
Defenestrate
Faience
Jagster
Lampas
Ranitpole
Schlemiel
Uropygium
Xanthous
Zygomorphous
THEN, pick another word that is already in common use, and create a new definition for it, including all the same components of a dictionary entry (Word, definition, part of speech, sentence, etymology)
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Quotes
"After all, I am not so violently bent upon my own opinion as to reject any offer proposed by wise men, which shall be found equally innocent, cheap, easy and effectual."
“… was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patron age of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelters of academic bowers, but amidst the inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and sorrow.”
"Everybody endeavoring to remove their goods, and flinging into the river, or bringing them to lighters that lay off; poor people staying with their houses as long as till the very --- touched them..."
"Thus the squire will learn to be a good landlord and grow popular among his tenant; the mother will have eight shilling net profit and be fit for work till she produces another child."
“He mourned heartily, as it was easy to see, but with a kind of masculine grief that could not give itself vent by tears, and calmly defying the buriers to let him alone, said he would only see the bodies thrown in and go away, so they left importuning him.”
"Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?"
“...receiving some of his brother’s things, whose houses were on fire; and, as he says, have been removed twice already…”
“Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through the difficulties of which it is useless to complain…”
“…and saw the fire grow and as it grew darker, appeared more and more, and in corners and upon steeples, and between churches and houses, as far as we could see up the hill of the city, in a most horrid malicious bloody flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire.”
“Having therefore no assistance but from general grammar, I applied myself to the perusal of our writers…”
“I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection.”
“…for here no difference was made, but poor and rich went together; there was no other way of burials, neither was it possible there should, for coffins were not to be had for the prodigious number that fell in such a calamity as this.”