Today I returned Will's graded Chapter 6 quiz (29/30) and went over it with him. Will and I were both pleased with his excellent performance. I made a point of telling him that I believed he was capable of performing at this level consistently if he would exercise discipline and diligence in doing the reading and preparing for quizzes. We then commenced consideration of Chapter 7, addressing the rise of cultural nationalism, the prevalence of Deism in the late eighteenth century, the Second Great Awakening in the early nineteenth century, key inventions and the beginnings of industrialism, Thomas Jefferson's early act as president in dealing with the Barbary Coast pirates, and, finally, the Supreme Court case of Marbury v. Madison.