Daily Log

Friday, June 13

Arthur Miller, the Communists, and the anti-Communists.
Miller's biography: a child of the Depression; his left-wing politics,
Miller's testimony before HUAC, his being found in contempt of Congress.
A very few minutes of David Halberstam's The Fifties.

Mr. Potratz returned the in-class Gatsby essays.

Coming up:
Monday and Tuesday (5th & 6th periods) or Thursday (3rd & 4th): The Crucible (1996 film).
Tuesday or Thursday: final project (Character Nexus & Character Sketches); Crucible notesheet; Elements of Literature textbook.