Author Archives: Bryan

Mindmap Here’s what I want you to learn during this unit. Invention work: Listing Satire often starts with a grain of irritation. The satirist wants to point out something that’s wrong, and push the rest of us toward change. Ready … Continue reading →

Hey students— Here’s a link to the mid-semester course evaluation that we’ll be doing in class.  

This 750 is all mudpit, all the time. This is the last mudpit for this essay, so feel free to go beyond 750 words. We’ll talk and write about “Ken Sent Me” in class, so you’ll want to make sure … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

Mudpit: Naming & Noticing Your small-groupmates helped you get a start on this phase of analysis on your text or artifact. Now you’ll extend this phase in your mudpit by adding a whole bunch of concrete, specific things you notice … Continue reading →