Daily Log

Monday, September 21

Students submitted their paragraphs concerning Mary Rowlandson's attitude toward her captors, and we discussed what students thought about the question. Most agreed that her attitudes did change over the course of her captivity. We examined the reasons and evidence for that change.

We also examined her allusion to Psalm 137. reading the entire psalm (p. 47) and discussing why it was meaningful to her in her situation. Then we compared her use of the psalm with a more recent instance, the Melodians' recording of "Rivers of Babylon."