Before class:

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?

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:

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.