The Secret Language of Comics: Visual Thinking and Writing

This assignment is an exercise in close reading and explication, in which you will look very carefully and precisely at 2 pages of your choice from Maus, making notes about what you observe, and then you’ll present what you uncover in the process and draw some connections between what you see in those pages and the larger narrative.

Due: 12/4 Return to your alphabetic narrative and revise, taking into account the further thinking you did as you created[…]

Write an essay in which you analyze the key experiences that shaped the way you read and write.