Daily Log

Thursday, October 28

Students turned in their vocabulary assignments for the second half of  Fred. D. and took a "not too scary" quiz over some of the words.

Students were then given copies of a speech (or more accurately excerpts from a speech) given by James H. Hammond to the United States Senate in 1858 elaborating his "Mud-sill Theory," telling the Northern elites that slavery was eternal, that they had their own slaves (in fact if not in name), and that they had best leave the South alone.  We discussed the different kinds of arguments contained in the speech.

Finally, Mr. P briefly went over what he expects in the typed thesis statements to be turned in Friday: a distillation of the central idea of your essay (as you see it now), making clear whether you support or oppose the resolution to abolish slavery, and why, in one sentence or at the most two.

HW due Friday:
Typed thesis statement

HW due Monday:
Typed formal outline