Unit 2 Historical Narritive

1.What i think we will be addressing in this unit is the primary sources and the disadvantages of the story that we read. We also might be looking at the points of the story and the way the author uses his language in the story, his personal style and the syntax,and also will have to find the elements in the nonfiction story's.

2.

From "The General Histories of Virginia"

Objective: Six or seven weeks those barbarians kept him prisoner, many strange triumphs and conjurations they made of him, yet he so demeaned himself amongst them,as he not only diverted them from surprising the fort, but procured his own liberty, and got himself and his company such estimation among them that those savages admired him.

Subjective: To Captain Smith, who, by his own example, good words and fair promises, set some to mow, others to bind thatch, some to built great houses, others to thatch them, himself always bearing the greatest task for his own share, so that in short time he provided most of them lodgings, neglecting any for himself...

From "Journal of the First Voyage to America"

Objective:I shall depart immediately, if the wether serve, and sail round the island, till I succeed in meeting with the king .

 Subjective:The melody of the birds was so exquisite that one was never willing to part from the spot, and the flocks of parrots obscred the heavens.

3. I think that the nature of the story's take away from their historical importance because its more focused on the detailed things than the most important parts like the history of the main story.

4.
I think all the work ive done and ive evaluated was equal to the essential questions that were being asked about for the narratives because it asked me to find parts where the character was stretching the truth and was being objective and i gave examples like: 

Objective:I shall depart immediately, if the wether serve, and sail round the island, till I succeed in meeting with the king .

 Subjective:The melody of the birds was so exquisite that one was never willing to part from the spot, and the flocks of parrots obscred the heavens.

the essential questions stated:
1.How does someone's point of view affect how they portray events in a story?
someones points of view can affect how they portray a story by giving brief examples of the details in the story that are important
2. What are the advantages of primary sources?  The disadvantages? yes