Class Agenda 3.19

1. Reading Quiz: Life in the Iron Mills and Slave and Citizen

2. Announcements
Books in bookstore
Blog recap
Blog assignment: TBA tomorrow
Essay assignment: see syllabus
museum trips

3. Group Discussions: Slave and Citizen

Before we pack into groups of three, I will give you 3 minutes to find a claim from the reading (it may be the one you wrote about for your quiz). Focus on pages 97-128.

Review terms: claim(s)

Each group should identify the following


a. A claim a student could incorporate into an essay

b. A claim that could serve as a "major" claim of the text

c. A claim that we could "challenge" in discussion

4.Reports : Each group will present the page number for 1 and 2, while identifying the claims to the class. For 3, the groups will offer a brief challenge of their own to the claim. We will use this time to discuss some of the claims that arise.

5. Break

6. The Quote Sandwich and Framing Quotations: a review

Quote, cite, and paraphrase the student correctly (we can review the instructions for citing a blog in previous blog agendas. There are links provided to you, as well as directions in previous course blogs). If there is no claim made by the student, focus on a claim included in their blog (presumably, Tannenbaum).

Sample quote sandwich /quote framing / citation

Rules for citing websites and other sources


15 minutes writing exercise: framing a quotation from Tannenbaum

8. Review short films on industrial factory labor

9. Individually: write the summary of Life in the Iron Mills, and find a passage that you found useful, interesting, problematic, or confusing.

10. Class discussion: Life in the Iron Mills.