Announcements

• Reminder that today is the last day of Add/Drop. Be sure to review the syllabus carefully, particularly the reading assignments, workload, and grading, to make sure that this class is right for you. Last chance!
  • And reminder that all students are required to co-facilitate 2 reading discussions (each about 30 minutes). See “Assignments” for the signup link.
• Note on timed exercise grading: your names are hidden as I grade individual questions. I read all your answers together, then assign numeric values to each answer. I only see your names after all the questions are graded.
  • Thanks for such thoughtful timed exercise answers from last week!
• Thanks so much for your thoughtful discussions with Prof Stinnett!
  • Personal Manifestos: we will return to this exercise later this semester. Thanks to Prof Stinnett!

Agenda

• Intro: News Items (25). If you didn’t add a technology-related news item that came to mind during your reading/listening assignment, please add it now. This is a required part of your weekly assignments.
• Timed Exercise (25) in Brightspace
  • For today’s timed exercise, note that railroad travel was still a new, emerging, “disruptive” technology during the time period of Beloved. 
  • Railroad travel relied on wrought iron, which itself relied on rapidly evolving manufacturing technologies during the first and second Industrial Revolutions. 
    • Before you start today’s exercise, I recommend searching for instances of the word “iron” in the passages of Beloved you read for today’s exercise.
  • Also note that the Underground Railroad was not an actual railroad; rather it was a network of secret routes and safe houses set up for enslaved people seeking freedom in “free states” (places where slavery was illegal). 
• Discussion (30) with a focus on preparing to lead discussions
  • Please sign up to facilitate 2 discussions on the “Discussions” tab of the class spreadsheet.
  • Recap of last week’s discussions: Enron, the banality of evil, bodily autonomy
  • Mapping Beloved, mapping railroads of the time
  • Why are we reading Beloved? (note on Peace Studio)
  • Why is Beloved so popular, particularly in academic settings?
  • What genre is Beloved in? (besides literary)
• Research Skills
  • Equity vs Equality
  • “Slaves” vs “enslaved people”
  • Hyperbole
  • Dart Guide to Trauma-Informed Journalism
  • Subtext in narrative: the said, the unsaid, the unsayable
  • Commas inside quote marks

Assignment

1. Please sign up to facilitate 2 discussions on the “Discussions” tab of the class spreadsheet.
2. Read/listen, take notes, and be ready for in-class timed exercises & discussions on: 
   • The remainder of Beloved Part 1 in the audiobook or ePub, up to “she murmured from the far side of the trees.”
     For the audiobook, this includes:
     • Section 5
     • Section 6
     • The first five minutes (00:05:08) of Section 7
3. What current technology issues come to mind from your reading? Please find a news item about a relevant technology issue, and add its URL to the 9/20 tab in D&T News Items 2023.