Before class:
Required
- Read “Blood in the Gutter,” a chapter from Scott McCloud’s (1993, 60–93) book, Understanding Comics.
- Read the poem “For Matt Dolmage” (n.p.) in Jay Dolmage’s (2014) book Disability Rhetoric.
- Reflect on the question, what happens in the meantime?
Recommended
- O’Neill, S., Raymont, P., & Lang, N. (2018). In the Making: Rebecca Belmore [Documentary]. CBC. https://gem.cbc.ca/media/in-the-making/s02e08
- Reason, M. (2018). Drawing. In C. Lury, R. Fensham, A. Heller-Nicholas, S. Lammes, A. Last, M. Michael, & E. Uprichard (Eds.), Routledge handbook of interdisciplinary research methods (pp. 47–52). Routledge.
During class:
Activities
- Three good things (5-7 minutes)
- Class discussion: (~40 minutes)
- the meantime, in theory
- the meantime, as it related to different media
- comics (the gutter)
- films (frames per second, coke commercials)
- books (page turning, waiting for the sequel)
- commercials in general
- the everyday meantime
- F.O.M.O.
- commuting
- other people’s children
- How do we show respect to the meantime?
- Free writing: (~30 minutes)
- Either alone or with a partner, write or draw a story about the meantime.
- If you would like to share your story with the class, please do so thorugh CLAS.
After class:
