English 585: SIGN UP

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To sign up for your Accountability Group, you’ll need the password. I’ve locked our spreadsheet to protect your privacy. You can find it it in D2L.

The first four steps involved follow.

  • FIRST: SIGN UP for an accountability group. Instructions at the top of the spreadsheet.
  • SECOND: If you’re the SIXTH person to sign up, email everyone else to say “hey, we’re a group!” See if you can find a time to meet up that first week. From there, you can figure out the rest. SIXTH PERSON: PLEASE DON’T FORGET TO STRIKE THROUGH THE EMAIL ADDRESSES YOU JUST CONTACTED. If you don’t, they’ll just get contacted again when the next person signs up. 🙂
  • THIRD: Once you have a time, set up a virtual meeting space (Zoom? a free version of Google Meet is also an option and pretty user friendly. Dealers choice.)
  • FOURTH: Before your first meeting, I recommend you check out the first video here (A4BL Accountability Group “Introduction“). Granted, our course materials won’t be nearly as challenging (emotionally) as this one ended up being. However, they’re also not NOT going to be challenging. We’re talking about “representing race” and the “ambiguities of representation” after all. 🙂

Return to the “Accountability Group: Home” for the rest of what you need.

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