Announcements
- Primary research spreadsheet: To check your assignment due today, I will temporarily lock the sheet after class, then review the revision history.
- A primary research informed consent form has been drafted based on your notes from last week.
Agenda
- Device time
- News item. Reminder: this is a required assignment now!
- Discussion facilitator sign-up. Discussions should be modeled on homework review circles and follow the discussion grading rubric. Please sign up this week, or I’ll assign you a date. Leading a discussion sooner might be easier than later!
- Device-free time
- Timed exercise
- Homework review circle – with this audio excerpt
- Timed exercise review circle
Assignment
You can use AI, but you must verify any information you find. I may ask you about it.
- NEWS: Please share a relevant news item and be prepared to explain it.
- IN BRIGHTSPACE: Please draft an email to each of the contacts listed in your primary research plan that was due today, September 21. Please also share any feedback on the informed consent form.
- READ and be prepared to discuss (in writing and speech):
- 1619 podcast, Episode 2, “The Economy That Slavery Built.” Also available at Apple and Spotify. Listen until the end of Matthew Desmond’s interview at 25:40. Here’s an auto-generated transcript.
- “America’s First Big Business: Not the Railroads, but Slavery.”
- “What is the Underground Railroad?”
- REVIEW and be prepared to discuss:
- Beloved up until “How loose the silk. How fine and loose and free.” (The entirety of Beloved-Part01.mp3)
- Any/all previous assignments.