Daily Log

Wednesday, September 3

First day of classes.
Mr. Potratz passed out copies of the syllabus and of a letter addressed to students' parents or guardians. Students were asked to share the syllabi as well as the letters with their folks and to bring the letters back, signed by their guardians, by Monday.
Also, Mr. Potratz announced a quiz on Thursday over the syllabus, which the students were assigned to read carefully before Thursday's class.

The rest of the period was taken up by a lecture/discussion over what is meant by "American Literature," the Eurocentric nature of that, and the long cultural history of our part of the world prior to its discovery by Europeans.