Daily Log

Thursday, November 18

We briefly reviewed the No Excuses Conventions sheet, over which there will be a quiz tomorrow (Monday for 4th period).

We explored further the shift in outlook which characterized the writers of the Revolutionary period -- the Age of Reason, as Thomas Paine and others called it, or the Enlightenment, when reason trumped faith for many intellectuals. Students received another handout with quotations regarding religion from several of the Founding Fathers: Paine, Washington, Jefferson, and Madison, and we discussed their views in the context of the religious "disputations" of the time.

HW due Friday/Monday (half day schedule in effect Friday-Wednesday):
Quiz in class over the No Excuses Conventions.

HW due Tuesday/Wednesday:
Read the introduction to "American Romanticism" on pages 138-50 of the textbook. The will be a quiz over it in class.