Daily Log

Monday, September 14

Mr. Potratz announced that he did not have paragraphs to return, as he had promised. So as not to hold students to a higher standard than himself he agreed to give timelines submitted today a few points extra credit and to accept timelines submitted Tuesday at full credit.

Starting from today's SAT question, we examined the grammatical principle of pronoun-noun agreement. In this connection students were given handouts with the No Excuses Conventions and the sheet of editing marks which we will use all year. (The full use of that sheet will become clearer when paragraphs are returned on Wednesday.)

Near the end of class we turned to an examination of our textbook's front cover, with its photo montage accompanying John Winthrop's famous statement "We shall be as a city upon a hill . . .".
We took this quotation as an introduction to the Massacusetts Puritans and their literature.

HW due Tuesday:
Timelines still accepted.