Daily Log

Friday, September 26

Students turned in their notes from Thursday along with their one or two sentences summing up the projected essay.

We put several of the sentences under the document camera and critiqued them, then selected some to use as the basis for our papers. We agreed that the papers would:
stress the similarities between Rowlandson's and Equiano's experiences, rather than the differences, and that those similarities would include at minimum (1) how the hardship of captivity drove each to the point of suicide and (2) how both suffered deeply by being separated from family and community.

HW due Monday:
Students are to select at least ten concrete details (CD's), five for Rowlandson and five for Equiano. These should be the details they think are the most relevant and telling to support the agreed-upon content (above). They may be in bullet form and might best be chosen as complementary pairs. They should be typed and double-spaced.