POST: Week 3, Day 2, Wednesday , September 10, 2008

Here is the list we agreed on today:

From the Prologue: Petty Harbor; Sentinel Fishery; the moratorium; handlining; groundfishing; cod

From Chapter 1: The Basques; to cure cod; the Vikings; Catholicism; Croft and Jay; Christopher Columbus; John Cabot; salt.

From Chapter 2: Gadus morhua; Atlantic cod; Iceland; saltfish; morue; the Grand Banks; the Georges Banks.

From Chapter 3: Gaspar Corte Real; La Rochelle; the English; the salt tax (gabelle); Cape Cod; the Pilgrims

From Chapter 4: Juan Martinez; El Dorado; Captain John Smith; New England; Naumkeag; Adam Smith.

Reminders for our first in-class writing: Get to class early. You may use the online dictionary at www.ldoce.com. No other dictionary is permitted.

If you are going to write this, bring a blue book (clean/new). If you are going to type it, you need to set up a Word document as soon as you get to class.

No looking at the Internet (except the dictionary) in ANY way during this class.

I'll choose ten of these terms. You will select five and provide a short identification of each -- no more than 5 sentences per identification. You'll have 25 minutes total.

NO COPYING. You need to paraphrase! If you aren't sure what that is -- see the handbook and pay LOTS of attention to p. 158! Look at the examples carefully.