Daily Log

Friday, September 12

We finished reading the selection from John Smith's Description of New England and then looked at how the reality of Jamestown's early years compares with the picture Smith paints in that selection. Mr. Potratz read from George Percy's account of the sufferings of 1607-8.

Students were assigned no HW for the weekend, but advised that there would be an assignment on Monday, due Tuesday, and that anyone wanting to get ahead could start reading the material in the textbook on the Massachusetts Bay colony, beginiing with the excerpts from William Bradford's "Of Plymouth Plantation" (pp. 28-33).