Daily Log

Monday, November 1

Students received back their thesis statements from Friday with comments.  They are to be revised and included in the typed formal outlines due tomorrow.  We reviewed expectations for the outline and for the essay, including the requirement that each essay's thesis statement appear at the end of the first paragraph, whatever strategy that paragraph may otherwise employ.

Mr. P added to the requirements for the essay the stipulation that at least one of the (minimum of three) quotations be from Frederick Douglass's Narrative.
Students also received a handout of excerpts from John C. Calhoun's 1837 speech in the U.S. Senate, "Slavery a Positive Good,"  and we reviewed the doctrine of States' Rights which underlay Calhoun's insistence that the Senate had no business even considering the question of abolition.

HW due Tuesday:
Formal typed outline of the essay on slavery. (See essay assignment sheet and the handout on outlining, both available on the Documents page of room301.org).