Daily Log

Thursday, December 17

Students took a brief open-book quiz over the excerpts from Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, and we graded it together. The religious "disputations" which were a factor in the teenage Franklin being forced to leave Boston were explained more fully by a handout with further passages by Franklin explaining his heterodoxy. A second handout on the religious views of other leading figures of the Revolutionary period gave further background on the intellectual milieu of the time.