Cornell Notes—Anne Bradstreet, p. 89
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Students are to read the background information about Anne Bradstreet on page 89 and produce Cornell Notes.
TEKS10.24A&B-Students will produce Cornell Notes that summarize the information presented.
Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bradstreet was the first published _________________
in America—A
remarkable accomplishment considering that writing was thought
________________________ for a ________________________at that time.
From England to the New World Anne ___________________________ was born and raised in
_________________________. At age __________, Anne married Simon
Bradstreet, a friend of the family. Two years later, Anne, her husband, and her
__________________ boarded the _________________________ as members
of John Winthrop’s party and sailed to
_____________________________________________________________ to
join the Puritan community there. At first, Bradstreet was appalled by the
___________________ life of the settlement, but she soon
_________________________. She wrote, “I changed my condition and was
married, and came into this _______________________, where I found a new
________________________ and new _________________________, at
which my heart rose [reacted angrily]. But after I was convinced it was the way
of _______________, I submitted to it and joined to the church at
________________________.”
In __________________________________________, Bradstreet began to
write __________________________. At first, she imitated the lofty style of
established ____________________ poets. As a result, her early
___________________ contain many wooden lines and do not reveal her
deeper _______________________. Bradstreet wrote for her own satisfaction
and shared her poems only with her ______________________ and
_____________________. Nonetheless, her brother-in-law, the Reverend John
Woodbridge, took _________________ of her poems to ___________________
without her knowledge and had them ____________________ as The Tenth
Muse Lately Sprung Up in America. (The ______________ Muses were ancient
Greek goddesses who inspired _________________________ and
_____________________.)
A Change of Style
When Bradstreet saw The Tenth Muse in print, she was ___________________
with her work and stopped writing ________________________ verse.
Instead, she started writing poetry about her ____________________________
as a woman in seventeenth-century ______________________________.
Bradstreet’s best poems explore her _______________ for her husband, her
____________________ at the death of her parents, and her _______________
to accept the losses she suffered. ___________ years after Bradstreet’s death,
an ______________________ edition of The Tenth Muse appeared under the
new title Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning.
SUMMARY: Do you believe that Anne Bradstreet deserves to be famous for her poems? Why or why not? Explain.
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