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For Use with Holt
11th Grade, Chapter 1
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Sinners in the Hands
of an Angry God
RELIGIOUS SERMON
Chapter 1, Grade 11
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California Standards
Reading Standard 2.1
• Analyze both the features and the rhetorical devices
of different types of public documents and the way
in which authors use those features and devices.
Reading Standard 3.4
• Analyze ways in which poets use figures
of speech to evoke readers’ emotions.
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Before You Read
More about the Writer
Background
– Edwards was also the loving, affectionate,
and thoughtful father of eleven children.
– When his daughter Esther was nine years old,
she wrote movingly about a ride in the woods
that they took together:
» “Thought father is usually taciturn or preoccupied…
today he discoursed to me of the awful sweetness of
walking with God in nature. He seems to feel God in
the woods, the sky, and the grand sweep of the river….”
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Before You Read
Make the Connection
Quickwrite
– Many people would agree
that fear is one of the most
powerful motivators of
human behavior.
» Fear of injury makes us
buckle our seat belts.
» Fear of failure makes us
study or work harder.
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Before You Read
Make the Connection
Quickwrite
– Edwards and other pastors
used harsh warnings
in their sermons to make
“sinners” understand the
precariousness of their
situation by actually feeling
the fear and horror
of their sinful state.
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Before You Read
Make the Connection
Quickwrite
– Do you think fear is
a great motivator?
– Take a few moments
to write about what
motivates you and
whether you would
use fear to motivate
someone else.
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Before You Read
Literary Focus
Figures of Speech
– Figures of speech describe one
thing in terms of another, very
different thing.
– Although Edwards’s belief in
eternal damnation is literal, he
uses figures of speech to compare
God’s wrath to ordinary, everyday
things that his listeners could relate
to and understand.
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Before You Read
Selection Starter
Build Background
– Evangelism literally
means “The bringing
of good news”specifically, the good
news of salvation
through faith
in Jesus Christ.
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Before You Read
Selection Starter
Build Background
– Edwards was trying to
awaken people who already
knew about the Gospel (the
biblical accounts of Jesus’
ministry) but who, he felt,
had never made a personal
commitment to its message
and who were complacent
in their religious tradition.
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Before You Read
Vocabulary Development
• provoked
• omnipotent
• appease
• abhors
• constitution
• abominable
• contrivance
• ascribed
• inconceivable
• induce
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Direct Teaching
Literary Focus
Figures of Speech
– In personification, a writer
speaks of nonhuman things
as if they were people.
» In this passage, how does
Edwards personify Hell and
its fires?
» What detail does he use
to personify God?
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Direct Teaching
Content-Area Connections
Science: Brimstone
– Brimstone is another word for sulfur.
– Several ancient civilizations recognized
the flammability of sulfur.
– Even today, the element is used in
such “fiery” products as gunpowder
and matches.
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Direct Teaching
Correcting Misconceptions
• In this sermon, executed
means “performed
or carried out”.
• Treasuring up may
be an unusual expression.
– It refers to collecting,
storing, or even hording
what in this case turns
out to be God’s anger.
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Direct Teaching
Reading Skills
Recognizing
Persuasive Technique
– What do you think
makes this final
paragraph
especially
persuasive?
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Guided Practice
Monitoring Students’ Progress
Locate three statements
that when taken together
provide an accurate summary
of Edwards’s sermon.
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