Daily Log

Tuesday, September 23

We began by reading together from page 38 of the anthology, filling in the historical background to Mary Rowlandson's Narrative. Mr. Potratz supplemented this material (focusing on King Philip's War of 1675) with information about the Pequot War of 1636.

We then turned from our focus on European colonists and Natives to the appearance of Africans, also in the 17th century, and we began reading excerpts from the 18th century captivity narrative of Olaudah Equiano. Students were informed that they would be writing essays comparing this piece with Rowlandson's captivity narrative.

HW due Wednesday:
Finish reading the excerpts fron Equiano's narrative and conme to class prepared to discuss it.