Daily Log

Tuesday, October 12

Students were reminded to report to either the Library (ASVAB) or Auditorium (PSAT) first thing tomorrow morning.

Students supplied CDs from Chapters 3 and 4 of Frederick Douglass's Narrative to show they had read them.

Students received an assignment sheet for the vocabulary words in the narrative (see Documents page), and we walked through the recommended process of completing it (involving mostly cutting and pasting and a little hand work). 

We discussed some of the CDs students had adduced, with many examples of the everyday atrocities under slavery and we raised the question of how people had defended such an inhumane system.  In partial answer, we turned to Douglass's reference to the "curse of Ham" on pages five and six, examining the scriptural passage it was based on and unravelling Douglass's analysis.

HW due Thursday:

Read Chapters 5 and 6 of Douglass's Narrative.