The one course text, Douglas Cole's Captured Heritage: The Scramble For Northwest Coast Artifacts, is now available in the bookstore.  We will be reading that soon and you should have that in your possession.  One separating feature of the strong Second-Half Note Assignment will be a genuine engagement with that text.

We'll be moving into a particularly challenging section of the curriculum in which we'll look at the Chilcotin War, Captured Heritage, and the Komagata Maru in three successive weeks.  It will be particularly important for you to plan ahead as you enter this section of the course and to be aware not only of weekly responsibilities but of how these fit into the overall rhythms of the course.

You will be asked to write a short essay on either the Chilcotin War or the Komagata Maru.  Although I expect you to access resources on both of these topics, it is fine if you dig deep on the one you have chosen for your essay topic but devote only an hour or two of study to the other.  The reading demands for Week 11 and Week 12 are reasonably limited.  Thus, you should have extra time both to complete your mini-essay (due November 27) and to continue on with reading Captured Heritage if you'd like to do so.  I do not expect even strong students to be finishing with all the responsibilities from Weeks 8-10 by the end of Week 10.

There will be another Notes-in-Progress check-in on Sunday, November 22.  This, like the three-week check-in, will be an ungraded assignment but I do expect to see your Notes.  The Note-Taking Assignment is designed as something you should be completing on a weekly basis.  These Notes-in-Progress should include the notes for your mini-essay.