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
- “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
- Please sign up to facilitate 2 discussions on the “Discussions” tab of the class spreadsheet.
- Read/listen, take notes, and be ready for in-class timed exercises & discussions on:
- 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.