Further Instructions for Extra Credit

For the extra credit assignment, you will be required to turn in your notes from the presentation as well as a two-page response paper. The paper must follow the regular style guidelines (12 point Times font, double spaced, etc.) in addition to fulfilling the following criteria:

• Summarize in one paragraph the main point of the lecture and give the presenter’s name.
• Explain your reactions; for instance, what questions did this lecture raise?
• How does this make you rethink your preconceptions about John Brown?

For response papers, it is acceptable to use the first person (this is not the case for the other papers in our course). We have not yet discussed the Transcendentalists or John Brown, but you could also think about any of the themes that we have covered that might relate to what you hear on Sunday. How do you think this lecture fits with topics we’re covering in our course? The paper will be due on WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, at 9am for the 9am section, or 11am for the 11am section. Put your paper in the Blackboard dropbox as well as turning in a hard copy. For those of you who’ve had trouble uploading papers, try using Internet Explorer instead of Firefox, but if it still doesn’t work, send it as an attachment to my email address. The paper is worth 50 points. Of course, extra credit is optional, so you will not lose points if you choose not to attend.

Extra-Credit Opportunity

For those of you looking for an extra credit opportunity, here is the information on an upcoming lecture by my advisor, Jonathan Earle, on Sunday October 26th, at 2:30pm. For this assignment you will be expected to attend the lecture, take notes, and write a 2-page response paper giving your reactions to the lecture.  More specific details will be discussed in class on Friday.  If you are unable to attend, there will be another opportunity offered later in the semester.  I’ll keep you posted.

“The Emerson Society and the Unitarian Fellowship of Lawrence will host a lecture on ‘A Plea for Captain John Brown: Unitarians, Vigilantism, and the Transcendentalists: From Bleeding Kansas to Harper’s Ferry’ by Associate Professor Jonathan Earle of the Department of History of the University of Kansas on Sunday, October 26, in the Fellowship’s new meeting hall at 1263 North 1100 Road, south of Lawrence, just off Route 59.  The lecture will begin at 2:30pm and will be followed by a reception.

“Professor Earle, who also serves as Deputy Director of the Dole Institute at the University of Kansas, is a well-known scholar on anti-slavery and democratic movements in nineteenth-century America.  He is the author of Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil (University of North Carolina Press, 2004).”