Announcements

• Attendance update from Student Advocacy: “even if a student reaches out to our office that we are only advocating on their behalf and any absences not handled in alignment with the course syllabus may be counted as unexcused.”
  • If you’re concerned about this, I advise planning to conduct extra primary research for extra credit. I’ll determine grading rubrics for this by next week.
• Ethical Data Collection – further reading
• A brief note on Beloved and intersectionality. More on intersectionality later this semester.
• Discussion reminders:
  • Technology reading now an explicit part of the assignment
  • Please focus on facilitating the class’s responses, not stating your own opinion
  • Keep an eye on the entire class to make sure everyone has a chance to speak.
  • Consider backup questions in case there’s no repsonse to the question(s) you’ve shared

AGENDA

• Device time
  • News item
  • Announcements
  • Discussion reminders
    • Technology reading is now an explicit part of the assignment
    • Please focus on facilitating the class’s responses, not stating your own opinion
    • Keep an eye on the entire class to make sure everyone has a chance to speak
    • Consider backup questions in case there’s no repsonse to the question(s) you’ve shared
  • Primary research check-in + tips updates.
    • Reminder on having a backup plan:
      • What happens if your inquiries go unanswered?
      • What happens if a correspondent refuses or cannot help?
  • Midterm template
    • 1500 words (about 6 pages) due on October 23 at 5pm
      • For full credit, you must have booked your primary research interview and/or archival visit by this date. Don’t forget to copy me on all correspondence, since this is your proof of work.
    • I will finalize this template before Monday and copy the template into individual Google Doc for each of you. Please build your midterm report in this Google Doc.
    • The template is from APA Sample Papers on the APA Style site. I downloaded the student paper and student paper with annotations — please use these for formatting guidance.
    • Grade sheet template forthcoming next week.
• Device-free time
  • Timed exercise
  • Discussion circle with audio excerpt

ASSIGNMENT

You can use AI, but you must verify any information you find. I may ask you about it.

1. NEWS: Please share a relevant news item and be prepared to explain it.
2. READ and be prepared to discuss:
   • Beloved up until “Hi Man assumed because he alone knew what was enough, what was too much, when things were over, when the time had come.” (The entirety of Beloved-Part04.mp3)
   • Additional reading:
     • PBS: How The West Got Rich and Modern Capitalism Was Born.
     • Headrick, D. R. (2009). Power over peoples : Technology, environments, and western imperialism, 1400 to the present. Please read two sections of Chapter 7:
       • Chapter 7: The Gun Revolution
       • Chapter 7: North America
     • Please review the APA Style Guidelines on Racial and Ethnic Identity and NPS Language of Slavery (linked from your earlier NPS Reading on the Underground Railroad). Adherence to these guidelines will be part of your midterm report’s cultural competence grade.
3. REVIEW and be prepared to discuss:
   • Any/all previous assignments
4. EMAILS (now overdue): See the Session 9 assignment for details.
5. FOR DISCUSSION FACILITATORS leading the next session: email me the following by 1:30pm ET before the next class, as part of your discussion grade.
   • your audio excerpt
   • a simple discussion question on the Beloved and additional technology reading assignments
   • a more challenging discussion question on the same assignment