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Important Dates:

 

Friday, 4/19: Good Friday (no classes)

Friday, 4/26: Last Day Of Class

 

Friday, 3/29: CRDM Symposium

Friday, 4/5: UNIT 3 FEEDER 1 DUE BY MIDNIGHT

Friday, 4/12: UNIT 3 FEEDER 2 DUE BY MIDNIGHT

Monday, 4/22: UNIT 3 PROJECT DUE BY MIDNIGHT

Monday, 5/6: FINAL PORTFOLIO DUE BY 5PM

 

Schedule

Most readings are hyperlinked directly from this page. Readings are due on the day they show up in the schedule. If there isn’t a link to the reading, it is found in “The Tar Heel Writing Guide.”

Lecture slides will appear in Sakai as a PDF and on here as a link, but please note that they’re not really an adequate substitute for what we do in class.

Homework is always due by the next class. 

Week Eleven

 

 

 

Monday, March 18th

Beryl Appositives Presentation

Unit 2 Recap

Introduce Unit 3 and Feeder 1

 

Activities

Unit 3 Questions

Transportation Plan

Critical Data Visualization_ An Approach

Homework:

Explore using the Database: http://www.slavevoyages.org

Unit 2 Feedback

 

Read: Equiano

Lecture 23

 

Wednesday, March 20th

Wilson Library Visit: We Do NOT have class in our normal Classroom. Meet in the lobby of Wilson Library.

Examine Custom Books and the Tunstall Family Letter.

Glass_ENGL_105i_mss resources_analysis

 

 

Homework:

Read:PDF HERE Markup Bodies

Jessica Marie Johnson, “Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads.”  Social Text 36.4 (Dec. 2018).

 

 

 

Friday, March 22nd

COURTNEY RIVARD GUEST LECTURE

Activities:

Johnson discussion

 

Lecture 24 Keynote

Homework:

Prepare for CRDM Symposium (paper polished) or Alternative Assignment Prep.

Sign up for a meeting time Here

Week Twelve 

 

Monday, March 25th

No Class Student Meetings to discuss CRDM-Sign Up Here

 

Wednesday, March 27th

Presentation Raine – affect vs effect

Workshop CRDM Papers and Unit Projects

CRDM Information

CRDM Website

 

Lecture 25

Friday, March 29th

No Class-CRDM Symposium 

CRDM

Program

Saturday, March 30th

CRDM Symposium

 

Week Thirteen

 

Monday, April 1st

Aidan Clauses Presentation

CRDM recap and Feeder 1

Free Write

Research in Humanities

 

 

Homework:

Read: WikiPedia Page about the Zong and Selections from

The_Zong_A_Massacre_the_Law_and_the_End_of_Slavery_—-_(Remembering_the_Zong)

 

Lecture 26

 

 

Wednesday, April 3rd

Sources/Drafting

Thesis Workshop

Uniit-3-Storyboard:Outline

 

Homework: Complete Draft of Feeder 1 (have thesis and outline of proof) ***I will be checking this in class

 

Lecture 27

 

 

 

Friday, April 5th

Eve Pronouns Presentation

Feeder 1 Workshop

 

ARCGIS

 

Write a 300-400 word rough draft using 1-2 sources about the middle passage or the slave voyages database (the Johnson article can be one of these sources), should you use the database to figure out where to put the monument or should you use a story/account or both?

UNIT 3 FEEDER 1 DUE AT MIDNIGHT

Lecture 28

Week Fourteen

 

Monday, April 8th

How to write about slavery/middle passage.

 

ArcGIS Workshop

Figure out how to use ArcGIS Online

Using ARCGIS ONLINE

Select of these maps to provide more context to the voyages and search for other maps to work with your StoryMap:

Map with all voyages: https://arcg.is/0aSXyu
Map with the routes of 100 or more deaths: https://arcg.is/0y4TP4
Map with filter on for deaths greater than 500: https://arcg.is/1eSufa

 

 

Lecture 29

 

Wednesday, April 10th

Feeder 2 Introduction

Feeder 2 Activity

 

Images Databases

 

Lecture 30

 

Friday, April 12th

Workshop Feeder 2

 

Lecture 31

UNIT 3 FEEDER 2 DUE AT MIDNIGHT 4/12/19

 

 

Week Fifteen

 

Monday, April 15th

Write Night Registration

Ellie Capitalization Game

Powerpoint

To Quote or Not to Quote

Introduce Unit Project: StoryMap

Create a 4-5 slide StoryMap about your proposal on where the middle passage memorial should go. Ensure you use at least a qualitative source from a primary account of the middle passage.

 

 

Source on Middle Passage Account

Images of Middle Passage/Memorials

Lecture 32

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, April 17th

Workshop Paragraphs

Discuss Rubric

 

Lecture 33

Homework: Complete Draft of Unit 3 on Monday 4/22

 

 

Friday, April 19th

NO CLASS

 

Week Sixteen

 

Monday, April 22nd

Workshop Unit 3 project

Final-Checklist

Trinity Tense:Sentence Tense

 

Lecture 34

UNIT 3 PROJECT DUE AT MIDNIGHT 4/22/19

 

Wednesday, April 23rd

Portfolio_project

Example:  https://portfoliotemplate2.web.unc.edu/

Digital Portfolio Workshop with Jennie Goforth

web.unc.edu

Saving Powerpoints into Pictures

iframe

 

 

Friday, April 25th

Last Day of Class

  1. Portfolio Survey
  2. Course Eval
  3. Random Comments
  4. Teaching Award: Tips on writing the nomination   The link to submit the nomination

 

personal email: grantglass@me.com

My own writing for Public Books: Glass – Crusoe@300

 

FINAL PORTFOLIO DUE: MONDAY, MAY 6TH AT 5PM Via Email or Sakai Dropbox