Graphic organizer: Nathan Cole and the First Great Awakening
This graphic organizer will aid students' comprehension as they read a diary excerpt that describes a revival in the 1760s.
A lesson plan for grade 8 Social Studies
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- Nathan Cole and the First Great Awakening: Diary of a Connecticut man from the 1760s tells of his conversion experience after attending a revival at which the famous minister George Whitefield preached. Historical commentary explains the differences between eighteenth-century and present-day religion and revivals.
- Discussion guide: Religion in early America: This discussion guide will help students understand the larger context of religion in colonial America as they read about topics such as Quaker emigration and the Great Awakening.
- Interracial "harmony" and the Great Awakening: The students will be introduced to two episodes in 19th-century American history, around the time of the Great Awakening, that show glimpses of some positive and negative consequences of interracial interaction in a religious context. The students will examine primary sources from the Documenting the American South collection to then be able to write a "sermon" from the perspective of a southern itinerant preacher during the Great Awakening arguing for or against religion as a cure for the social ill of racism and slavery.
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- Learn more about George Whitefield, Great Awakening, Nathan Cole, colonial, history, religion, revivals, and social studies.
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Have your students fill in this graphic organizer as they read the page “Nathan Cole and the First Great Awakening.”
Great Awakening graphic organizer
| Important details | Why is this important? | |
|---|---|---|
| George Whitefield at Middletown | ||
| On the road to the sermon | ||
| The crowd | ||
| Whitefield speaks | ||
| Made for heaven or for hell? | ||
| “Forsake everything that was sinful” | ||
| At the very mouth of Hell | ||
| Saved by Christ |
North Carolina curriculum alignment
Social Studies (2003)
Grade 8
- Goal 1: The learner will analyze important geographic, political, economic, and social aspects of life in the region prior to the Revolutionary Period.
- Objective 1.07: Describe the roles and contributions of diverse groups, such as American Indians, African Americans, European immigrants, landed gentry, tradesmen, and small farmers to everyday life in colonial North Carolina, and compare them to the other colonies.
- North Carolina Essential Standards
- Social Studies (2010)
Grade 8
- 8.C.1 Understand how different cultures influenced North Carolina and the United States. 8.C.1.1 Explain how exploration and colonization influenced Africa, Europe and the Americas (e.g. Columbian exchange, slavery and the decline of the American Indian populations)....
- Social Studies (2010)
