Daily Log

Tuesday, February 1

Students wrote for five minutes describing "A Family Tree," a painting by Norman Rockwell from a 1958 Saturday Evening Post cover. We then discussed what students saw in the illustration which depicted the diverse heritage of a typical American family. We also discussed what we did not see there (any African-Americans, Asian Americans, etc.) We looked again at an article from Sunday's New York Times about young Americans asserting their pride in being racially mixed, and we speculated about whether the United States may begin to transcend color lines its ethnic admixture and what that might mean for various groups.