Explain when or where you have seen any of these techniques used.
What techniques have you used before? Have they been successful? Why or why not? What techniques do you think you should use more? why?
Thomas Paine: This writing usually elicits many personal responses. What is yours?
Choose one of Paine's arguments and create a rebuttal. Try to use similar writing techniques such as syllogism in your argument.
Imitate the structure of Paine's comparison of government and society with two other often confused ideas. (Love and lust; justice and revenge; pride and egotism; an athlete and a "jock";)
This writing is meant to be Paine's personal creed: what he believes and what he doesn't believe (spiritually). What is your personal creed?
Ben Franklin: Compare what you have learned about Franklin in the past to the image created in his autobiography.
Create a Venn diagram comparing your values and beliefs to those embodied by Franklin.
Create a chart with Puritanism, Age of Reason, and yourself. Include values, religious beliefs, politics, etc. How do the 3 compare and contrast?
Choose a key idea from his writing, like the speckled axe, human perfectibility, the use of scientific method to improve one's self (isn't journaling and keeping rack of information often stressed when a person tries to make a change?), deism vs. a specific religious sect, etc. and write about:
- your personal views on it
- how it reminds you of a current event, historical event, other reading, etc.
- what another historical figure or fictional character would say about it.
If you were going to create an experiment like Franklin's, what would be on your list? What would be most difficult? You could recreate 1 week of the experiment. How did you do?
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