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Pursuit of Perfection: Franklin's Autobiography Analysis

Explore Benjamin Franklin's views on self-improvement, virtues, and moral perfection in his autobiography. Analyze the characteristics of autobiographies and aphorisms. Enhance vocabulary skills and infer key ideas from the text.

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Pursuit of Perfection: Franklin's Autobiography Analysis

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  1. Autobiography By Benjamin Franklin

  2. Literary Analysis • Explore the key idea of self-improvement • Analyze the characteristics of an autobiography • Read an autobiography, aphorisms, and a magazine article

  3. Reading Objectives • Make inferences about the author

  4. Vocabulary Objectives • Build vocabulary for reading and writing • Use the Latin root FIC to help unlock meaning

  5. Key Idea: Self improvement • As a young man, Benjamin Franklin believed that human beings could actually achieve perfection in a given area. All you needed was a reasonable plan and a lot of self-discipline. • Many people today also aim for perfection, although their quest may take a different path. Bookstores have a whole section devoted to self-improvement in a variety of areas, including diet, exercise, careers, and dating.

  6. Assignments for today • Complete handout over reading skills definitions and author • Complete vocabulary sketches • These are HOMEWORK if you do not finish

  7. Vocabulary • Unremitting • Felicity • Affluence • artifice • Incorrigible • Trifling • Contrive • eradicate

  8. Autobiography • Look on page 264. What characteristics of autobiography do you find in the first paragraph of this selection?

  9. Reinforce Key Idea:Self Improvement • Does Franklin find self-improvement easy?

  10. Interpret • Read virtue #4. How would achieving this virtue lead to moral perfection?

  11. Making Inferences • Based on Franklin’s list of virtues, what inference can you make about his view of his own moral character? Explain?

  12. Making Inferences • What can you infer from lines 25-46 about Franklin’s approach to problems?

  13. Autobiography • In what way do lines 47-80 provide an example of Franklin’s dual perspective?

  14. Connect • What insight does Franklin come to about his quest for perfection? Consider what you have learned in your won life about perfection. Does his insight seem reasonable?

  15. Autobiography • What significant moment or insight is described in this paragraph?

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