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Today’s timed exercise will ask you to discuss subtext. If you need a quick refresher as to what this is, here’s a dictionary definition! https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/subtext

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!
• Timed Exercise (25) in Brightspace
• Discussion (30) of last session’s assigned reading/listening:
  • Civil & Human Rights laws & policies of
    • NYU
    • New York City
    • New York State
    • United States
  • New York Times: 1619 podcast, Episode 2
  • America’s First Big Business: Not the Railroads, but Slavery (Part 1) and How The West Got Rich and Modern Capitalism Was Born (Part 2)
  • Epigraph, Dedication, and Foreword of Beloved (only available in the ePub version)
  • Beloved Part I, section 1, up to “jailed up flavor ran free.”
• Research Skills

Assignment

1. If you are new to the course, read the Syllabus carefully to make sure this writing-intensive class is right for you.
2. Sign up to facilitate 2 discussions during the semester. Be sure to choose a different author for each session.
3. Read/listen, take notes, and be ready for in-class timed exercises & discussions on: 
   • MLA Guide to Inclusive Language (NYU login required; summary here)
   • APA Bias-Free Language Guidelines (See the full chapter here)
   • UN pamphlets on bodily autonomy & integrity and bodily autonomy
   • Beloved Part I, section 2, up to “the passion in her voice made them smile”  (~1hr 15 min)
4. 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 9/11 tab in “D&T Share-outs 2024.” Note: In the future, if a tab doesn’t yet exist for the next class, go ahead and create a new one!