Daily Log

Monday, September 22

Students submitted their paragraphs on Mary Rowlandson's Narrative, and we looked at one or two of those paragraphs. Then we proceeded to discuss the reading and specifically to examine certain biblical allusions, including the invocation of Psalm 137 ("By the rivers of Babylon . . . ). Then we listened to the famous reggae version of this psalm and compared the Rastafarians' use of it to Mary Rowlandson's).