Daily Log

Monday, September 27

In lieu of the SAT Question of the Day we spent some time with apostrophes, in honor of the newly-posted No Excuses Conventions posters on the west wall of the classroom.

Next we returned to the Rivers of Babylon and Psalm 137, comparing the two, remarking on the absence in the song of the Psalm's vengeful ending, and stressing once again that different people may legitimately see and stress different things in the same text (whether we are speaking of scripture or secular literature).

Finally we turned to our next text, excerpts from the Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano.

HW due Tuesday:
Read pp. 56-65 in Elements of Literature, the biography of Equiano and excerpts from his autobiography.  Students will be asked to supply CDs from the text at the start of class.