Weekly Schedules: |One | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six | Seven | Eight | Nine | Ten |
Spring Week One: April 5
Introductions, program overview, covenants. Here's a downloadable copy of the print syllabus.
Allan Johnson video from his lecture in an earlier Evergreen speaker series: "Unraveling the knot of race"
In-class reading: Thurgood Marshall speech.
http://www.thurgoodmarshall.com/speeches/constitutional_speech.htm
Seminar on video, White By Law and Marshall article.
Please make sure you have a current Evergreen library card and a useable
e-mail account. Bring your new student assignment (if
you're new!)Here
it is: We're asking students who are new in the spring to read Chapters
7 and 8 from Volume II of Who Built America, both about labor, the great
depression, the new deal, and the law. We're also asking you to read the
preamble and Sections 7 and 8 of the National Labor Relations Act:
http://www.nlrb.gov/about_us/overview/national_labor_relations_act.aspx
Then, write about 2 pages on how you think the events described in the book influenced the law and how the events are reflected in the language, particularly of the preamble.
Thurgood Marshall (center) after Brown v. Board of Education decision, 1954>
Week One Agenda (download as Word document)
