Note from Vince Fitzgerald for our pod: "Before class on Thursday the 1st, please take the Values in Action (VIA) Free Survey—http://www.viacharacter.org/www/Character-Strengths-Survey. IMPORTANT: Be completely honest with yourself! Don’t take the test based upon how you wish you are but upon how you truly are. Have the courage to be honest with yourself! Print it and bring it to the next class." (see link on email for quick access.JM)

See email for clearer version of this! Revised Course Outline-Quarter II Nov. 1 Read VOWR "Surviving Justice" chapters Nov. 3 Blog on your position on capital punishment Required: FYS Research Fair 3:00-4:30pm Cafeteria Nov. 8 Read VOWR "Palestine Speaks" Nov. 10 Blog on film, speaker and reading by midnight Nov. 11 Optional, Recommended: Veterans Day Prayer Service, Cunningham Chapel, 11AM Nov. 15 Read VOWR and blog "Voices from the Storm" and "Underground America" Nov. 17 Read VOWR and blog "Out of Exile" and "Hope Deferred" Nov. 17 Required: Social Justice Speakers Series--Ruth Jacobs Gibson Gellert Library, 4:30-6:00pm Nov. 21 Optional, Recommended: Thanksgiving Italiano at Maple Street Shelter 4-8pm Nov. 22 Read VOWR "Nowhere To Be Home" and "Patriot Acts"; blog on Ruth Gibson Nov. 24 Thanksgiving-no class Nov. 29 Read VOWR "Inside This Place" and "Throwing Stones" Dec. 1 Read VOWR "Refugee Hotel" and "High Rise Stories" Dec. 6 Read VOWR "Invisible Hands"; Final paper draft due Dec. 8 Read VOWR "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" Week of Dec. 12: Final Exam

Dear Students: Our book comes from this amazing San Francisco-based project, Voice of Witness. Instead of starting to read the book, the requirement for Thursday’s class is that you spend at least one hour, preferably 90 minutes, exploring the Voice of Witness website. http://voiceofwitness.org/ There are several key pages, including one which explains the book series and our volume in that series. http://voiceofwitness.org/books/ There interesting short videos like this one on the situation in Columbia: http://voiceofwitness.org/education/curricula/displaced-in-colombia/ Watch this and other available videos. Also, please read this interview with Dave Eggers and Mimi Lok in Salon magazine. http://www.salon.com/2015/06/13/dave_eggers_on_working_for_justice_through_oral_history_there_wasn%E2%80%99t_much_that_allowed_those_people_to_seem_fully_human/ Finally, do a blog entry on your opening understanding of this project from which our next textbook comes. (Summary and comment.) These will be your first points on the new quarter. Homework for next week: You will be responsible to have read from page 9-84 for next Tuesday. You will need to get started on this soon. These first two chapters are on the death penalty. Jim

Students: Attendance at the production in the Theater, "The Amateurs,"with blog review, is also an option along with the art/photography exhibit and/or the musical in Taube this weekend.

Nechama Tec article: http://www.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20699.pdf

Online source #5 Eva Fogelman article https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/righteous/pdf/resources/fogelman_the_rescuer_self.pdf

Students: I do want to give you an alternative to the art gallery: if you can attend one of the performances of "A Little Night Music" this weekend (Brandon is one of the cast members) that could substitute. Jim