Announcements
- News item is a point (for URL), 2 points (for verbal presentation
- Additional written assignments are up to 3 points for full completion
AGENDA
- Device time
- News item
- Primary research check-in
- Discussion sign-up check-in
- audio clips
- sitting in a circle only if class is smaller than 14 people
- Device-free time
- Timed exercise
- Discussion circle with this audio excerpt
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.
- READ and be prepared to discuss:
- Beloved up until “She’s not sick!” said Denver, and the passion in her voice made them smile.” (The entirety of Beloved-Part02.mp3)
- Short readings/listenings on wrought iron and railroads:
- The Guardian: Industrial Revolution iron method ‘was taken from Jamaica by Briton’
- Wikipedia: Modern-edge rails
- REVIEW and be prepared to discuss:
- Any/all previous assignments
- FOR DISCUSSION FACILITATORS: If you’re leading the next session discussion, email me the following by 1:30pm ET on 9/28, as part of your discussion grade:
- your audio excerpt
- a simple discussion question on the Beloved reading assignment
- a more challenging discussion question on the same assignment
OPTIONAL: More reading on Railroads and Wrought Iron
- Black metallurgists and the making of the industrial revolution (covered in the Guardian article above)
- UCL’s “Full and unreserved support” for the article above, after blowback to the article
- The Coming of the Railway : a new global history, 1750-1850
- NPR: How the Underground Railroad Got Its Name (with transcript)