Smith: "General History of Virginia" (42-47)
Bradford: "On Plymouth Plantation (50-54)
Be sure to think about your lecture on geographic determinism and what you know about the differences between the Northern and Southern colonies as you do your reading.
You will also need to create a chart based on the Bradford/Smith readings that has the following:
One column focusing on details more unique to Bradford's work.
One column focusing on details more unique to Smith's work.
One column identifying what similiarites the two pieces had.
Under each column, you may with to consider such things as:
-Characterization of speaker, community members
-Values of community
-Lifestyle/living conditions
-Voyage
-Relationship with Native Americans
-Style of writing
-Purpose of writing
-Selection of details
This is just a start, so you can feel free to include other observations that I haven't mentioned. Try to aim for about 4-5 observations under each column.
This chart will be handed in and graded under the category of "practice".
