6th hour finished the reading and note-taking from the Price excerpt about London. All classes then took notes from my short slideshow that paints a fuller picture of Europe from historian Stannard. We discussed the significance of scholarly secondary sources for giving context to primary sources (using John Smith's account of the Pocahontas story as anecdote) before reading the short packet about the Jamestown letter -- take notes on the EQ page from the scholarly info and from the letter itself. In hours 4 & 7 we then went to history.org to view these videos from Colonial Williamsburg for a taste of daily life in Virginia in the LATE colonial period: history.org>multimedia>vodcasts: "Dirty Life out Back"...(We'll do more tomorrow...)
