Daily Log

Wednesday, September 24

We finished reading the excerpts from Olaudah Equiano's Narrative aloud in class.

Mr. Potratz then explained that we would begin writing essays comparing Equiano's narrative with Mary Rowlandson's. We will follow an "accordion" process, starting with briefest possible statement of the paper's thesis (which we will write together in class), then proceed to a single-paragraph version (which we will also construct together). Finally, students will expand the paragraph into a full essay individually on their own.

To varying extents in different class periods we began discussing similarities and differences between the two pieces.