Choose one literary text from the following list: John Smith’s The General History, “The Third Book–Chapter II,” William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation, “Book I–Chapter IX,” Thomas Morton’s New English Canaan, “Chapters IV, XV, XIV, and XV,” Anne Bradstreet’s “Prologue,” “The Author to Her Book,” “Before the Birth of One of Her Children,” “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” “A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment” and “Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666,” Mary Rowlandson’s A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration, or Ben Franklin’s The Autobiography.
