SEE
1.The animal is a turkey.
2.They are two people, a man and a woman wearing traditional Puritan costumes.
3.The people in the foreground are wearing Puritans costumes as well.
THINK
1.I believe that the turkey has a historical significance.
2.The picture represents the festivity of Thanksgiving.
3.The scene may be from today’s world because of the huge motorized turkey.
WONDER
1.They are celebrating because Puritans are the founders of their culture.
2.According to the float and to people dressed up in costume it resembles Carnival.
3.Italy doesn’t have a national symbol similar to the turkey but it’s famous for Roma Ruins.
EX. 1
1.G 2.E 3.A 4.F 5.B 6.C
EX. 2
1.The experiment demonstrated that the work habits of today’s American reflected the Protestant work ethic. It means the idea of salvation makes people work harder.
2.Americans seem to share the prudishness of the Puritans, indeed they judge promiscuous women more harshly than British.
3.He answers to “Do present-day Americans still exhibit…traces of those austere English Protestants…?” with “It seems we do”. Using the pronoun “we”, he includes himself in American people.
4.Religion doesn't seem to be not so relevant for American people, but values of the Puritan religion guide their moral judgements.
5.New England exercised a disproportionate influence on the modern world thanks to a powerful“intellectual tradition” present in many aspects of their society, from universities to writings.
EX. 3
Paragraph 1: Is America still Puritan?
Paragraph 2: Investigation on work habits
Paragraph 3: Anagrams solved with the idea of salvation on the mind
Paragraph 4: Judgement about promiscuous women
Paragraph 5:Puritanical intermingling of work, sex and morality
Paragraph 6: Not religious but guided by Puritan moral judgementts
Paragraph 7: New England’s influence
Paragraph 8: Is American psyche related to Puritanism?
Paragraph 9: Tocqueville nowadays