Hi Everyone,

Thanks for another engaging discussion today! A reminder about your work for our next meeting:

1. Pick a short text that you think is particularly interesting/meaningful/lovable/hatable/funny/weird. It should be a text that interests you AND a text that you could convince a small group of your peers to be interested in.
2. Write a brief creative analysis of this text. What’s it about? (Themes/hidden meanings/social context and so on…) What exactly is its genre? (Meme/poem/song/instagram post/newspaper article and so on) What is your experience with it? (When did you discover this text? How many times have you listened to this song? And so on…)
3. Bring your text and creative analysis of it to class.
4. Have fun with this. It is not for a grade. It is just practice for you.

Remember, a “text” means, in the most broad way, “the thing being interpreted.” So feel free to pick anything. Just remember that this a short exercise so you should avoid picking a novel, a movie, or other longer form genres.

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