The spoken word had great power in early America. Research one of these early American spoken forms:
Native American oral histories
Puritan hymns
Puritan sermons
Early American speeches
Revolutionary War songs
Answer the following questions:
1. What was the speaker's purpose?
2. What form did the performance take?
3. How do we know what the performance sounded and looked like?
4. What types of language did the original speakers use?
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