Mudpit
For your last 750, you spent some time in phase 1 of analysis on your text or artifact: naming & noticing. Now you’ll want to proceed to phase 2: making connections. Here are some questions to help you in phase 2:
Do any of the components relate? Do you see any patterns? Can they be grouped in any meaningful ways?
Do any of the components remind you of anything else? What associations can you make?
Personal connection: what is your reaction to the text? How might you explain that reaction?
Now you’re ready to take the leap into meaning with phase 3. Here, you’ll look to connect to something larger than your text/artifact; here, you’ll look to move from the banal and obvious to the surprising and profound. Following are a few prompts to help you make that leap.
Pretend you’re a space alien studying our culture. What does this text say about our society?
What does this say about our fears, desires, cultural norms?
Do the components you’ve named & noticed connect to anything larger? Any myths, values, systems of belief?
What’s the cultural context? What was happening in the larger world when this text/artifact appeared?