Daily Log

Wednesday, September 14

We turned from William Bradford's account of peacemaking with the Native Americans to Mary Rowlandson's narrative of her as a prisoner of the Indians during King Philip's War. As background and transition we traced the history of Squanto, the plague which devastated the native population before and after the colonists arrived -- and the Puritans' gratitude to God for this "miraculous" development -- and Metacomet's (King Philip's) account of why he went to war.

HW due Thursday:
Finish the biography of Rowlandson on p. 38 of the textbook and the selections from her Narrative on pages 40-45. Students will be expected to provide details from the text to demonstrate that they have read the assigned pages.