• 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!
• Next Monday, weather permitting: Underground Railroad walking tour. No Timed Exercise! 🙂

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)
• Research & Cultural Competence Skills
  • Timed Exercise quote: “Note that the b in Black should be capitalized because referring to human as colors is “pejorative”.”
    • Nell Irvin Painter (Washington Post): Why “White” should be capitalized, too
  • Equity vs Equality
  • Subtext in narrative: the said, the unsaid, the unsayable
  • Commas inside quote marks
  • Authorial voice in third person (and see TEDed video “First person vs. Second person vs. Third person – Rebekah Bergman“)
  • D&T Reading, Watching, Listening

Assignment

1. 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
2. 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 9/18 tab in D&T News Items 2024.