Also, the monster is too hot

I used to hate our janky Blackboard LMS so much, and admittedly appreciated Canvas's interface at my old job, but now... feeling grateful for not having to smoothen things for my sects

Higher-order thinking?

Love that you got this rolling. I'm always trying to refine prompts, find new possibilities, and trying to find ways to AI proof them

Write about both to make a coherent argument the two help illuminate. Sometimes the results are obvious (like, we read H.G. Wells for class, so you get essays from the students who read Huxley in high school). But then you also get, like, Kim Stanley Robinson and Disco Elysium!

Explain a key critical concept from one of our secondary texts (essays, book chapters, etc.) and use it as a lens to interpret a primary text (novel, poem, song, etc.) from class. The primary text you choose must help you correctly and lucidly explain a challenging concept from the critical text.

I've gotten good BookToks too: Select a text from class and make a BookTok that can convince new readers to read it while also explaining a theory you’ve learned in class. Your video must fit the genre of BookToks, even as you bring an academic twist to it.

What text from class has sparked the most interest for you? Why did it have this effect on you? What is the biggest idea it has allowed you to generate? Set the scene for how you came to this idea, immerse your reader in the evolution of your thinking, and tell us why this idea is important.

... your habits, approaches to literary and cultural texts, your evolving skillset, etc. Be concrete: use textual analysis and explain how specific texts have specifically shaped your thinking. (Just saying that you appreciate literature more now won’t be satisfactory.)

Consider all your literary education prior to class. What dispositions, attitudes, biases did you have, toward or against, literature upon enrolling in LITR 2110? How have those changed significantly? Consider not only the course materials, but also...

Some of better work responded to: Synthesize a text from class with another artwork with which you have recently engaged deeply on your own. It could be a novel, story, poem, comic, film, album, or video game. Your texts must convey an idea more strongly together than either can alone.

I also give out a list of prompts at the beginning of the semester. Students can respond to any one of them at any point in the semester. They do 3 medium-length responses, and students select one of those to polish and rework into an essay or un-essay that synthesizes with new texts and sources