American Literature 201September 20

Michael SimpsonSection 051

Having emerg’d from the Poverty and Obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a State of Affluence and some Degree of Reputation in the World, and having got so far thro’ Life with a considerable share of Felicity, the conducing Means I made use of, which, with the Blessing of God, so well succeeded, my Posterity may like to know, as they may find some of them suitable to their own Situations, and therefore fit to be imitated. [342]

Benjamin Franklin

Class Summary

Blog Update

Franklin Autobiography Topics

Blog Update

1st and 2nd graded blogs returned

Identify blog for grade #3

6 blogs written by 9/15

Questions

Franklin Autobiography Topics

People

Thomas Franklin

Josiah Franklin

James Franklin

John Collins

Samuel Keimer

Sir William Keith

James Ralph

Mr. Denham

Ideas and Objects

Religion

Food

Printing business

Conversation

Loaves of bread

Eating Fish

Drinking water

Swimming

Last QuestionsRemember for September 22

Read Part 2 of Franklin’s Autobiography

Deadline for 7th Blog

It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson *

* Sante, Luc. “The Fiction of Memory” The New York Times. March 14, 2010.