Daily Log

Thursday, September 30

Students took an open-book quiz over the Declaration of Independence and we graded it together, after which we focused on the section -- deleted by the Congress before adoption -- in which Jefferson indicts George III for sponsoring the African slave trade and makes it crystal clear that he holds slavery to be a violation of the bedrock principles of the Declaration and of sacred human rights.

Friday:  We will write a practice SAT essay in class; students who are absent will be required to come in after school one day next week and spend twenty-five minutes making it up.