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Deanna Mascle @deannamascle.bsky.social · 1h

Waiting for Godot

The Rebel Cartographers have been talking about the most recent Broadway staging of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot for weeks because one of our writers (Ann Haney) was able to go on her own exc…

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Deanna Mascle @deannamascle.bsky.social · 1h

My goal is to design a class that takes my students on a learning journey as humans, writers, and critical thinkers and my bottom line is for us all to survive that journey...creating a joyfully authentic community is my best tool to make that happen. metawriting.deannamascle.com/creating-a-j...

Creating a Joyfully Authentic Community : Metawriting

What’s Really New? Today I am logging in grades, handing out certificates, and reading the reflections and community celebrations for...

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Deanna Mascle @deannamascle.bsky.social · 3h

The government shutdown isn’t hitting everywhere equally—infrastructure projects that rely on federal funding have been halted exclusively in states that voted for Kamala Harris. Do blue states have any recourse against a federal government that only functions to punish them?

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Time for a Blue-State “Soft Secession”?

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Deanna Mascle @deannamascle.bsky.social · 6h

How do you help your students measure their own growth and set their own goals?

Writer, Thinker, Human: How do you measure growth and set goals? : Metawriting

This week Kentucky has been plagued by tornadoes, thunderstorms, and the rain continues to pour as floodwaters rise. Our Eastern...

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Deanna Mascle @deannamascle.bsky.social · 19h

Film director Raoul Peck grew up in Haiti and the Congo, and is no stranger to authoritarianism. So it was an easy “yes” when he was offered access to Orwell’s entire body of work. Peck talks to Audie about his take on Orwell’s legacy and what it has to teach us.

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Why Orwell's '1984' is having a moment in 2025

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Deanna Mascle @deannamascle.bsky.social · 20h

This week my first year writers started exploring their fears, dreams, scars, and butterfly moments as we kicked off our What If Unit. metawriting.deannamascle.com/what-if-we-t...

What If We Told the Story of Our Values : Metawriting

What’s New? This year I kept the same structure for my What If Unit but switched in some new poems...

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Deanna Mascle @deannamascle.bsky.social · 23h

I kicked off today's class with a poem - one of my favorite teacher and writer moves.

How Do I Use Poetry In Comp Class? Let me count the ways... : Metawriting metawriting.deannamascle.com/how-do-i-use...

How Do I Use Poetry In Comp Class? Let me count the ways... : Metawriting

What’s Really New? This week my first year writers used What You Missed That Day You Were Absent From Fourth...

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Deanna Mascle @deannamascle.bsky.social · 23h

What invitations to write can you find via Waiting for Godot, Alex Winter, and Keanu Reeves? deannamascle.com/waiting-for-...

Waiting for Godot

The Rebel Cartographers have been talking about the most recent Broadway staging of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot for weeks because one of our writers (Ann Haney) was able to go on her own exc…

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Deanna Mascle @deannamascle.bsky.social · 1d

As we wrap up our second unit I'm super excited to read my students' unit reflections. So many have already reported changes in the way they think/feel about writing.

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Deanna Mascle @deannamascle.bsky.social · 1d

How do you help your students measure their own growth and set their own goals? metawriting.deannamascle.com/writer-think...

Writer, Thinker, Human: How do you measure growth and set goals? : Metawriting

This week Kentucky has been plagued by tornadoes, thunderstorms, and the rain continues to pour as floodwaters rise. Our Eastern...

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Deanna Mascle @deannamascle.bsky.social · 1d

Midterm update: Students are still breaking my heart.

Gen Z 2.0 and ADHD : Metawriting metawriting.deannamascle.com/gen-z-2-0-an...

Deanna Mascle @deannamascle.bsky.social · 1d

I kicked off today's class with a poem - one of my favorite teacher and writer moves. metawriting.deannamascle.com/how-do-i-use...

How Do I Use Poetry In Comp Class? Let me count the ways... : Metawriting

What’s Really New? This week my first year writers used What You Missed That Day You Were Absent From Fourth...

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Deanna Mascle @deannamascle.bsky.social · 1d

As we wrap up our second unit I'm super excited to read my students' unit reflections. So many have already reported changes in the way they think/feel about writing. metawriting.deannamascle.com/writing-refl...

Writing Reflection : Metawriting

What’s New? This semester I shifted my students’ weekly reflections from a private channel to the public channel – making...

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Deanna Mascle @deannamascle.bsky.social · 2d

Midterm update: Students are still breaking my heart. metawriting.deannamascle.com/gen-z-2-0-an...

Gen Z 2.0 and ADHD : Metawriting

I have been struggling to understand our current crop of college students and how to adapt my praxis to meet...

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Deanna Mascle @deannamascle.bsky.social · 2d

Walter talks to Sean about the warning signs she’s seeing in the US and what an American civil war might look like in the 21st century, the social and informational dynamics that accelerate breakdown, and whether America still has a path away from the brink.

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America chose violence. Now what?

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Deanna Mascle @deannamascle.bsky.social · 2d

unpack what this unargued, unreasoned, unsigned and (in Kavanaugh’s case) uncited decision means for both immigrants and U.S. citizens, for 4th amendment doctrine, and for the lower courts expected to parse SCOTUS’ tea leaves

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Amicus | Dear Justice Kavanaugh, “I’m American, Bro”

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Deanna Mascle @deannamascle.bsky.social · 2d

In this conversation, Pádraig Ó Tuama reads several poems from Kitchen Hymns (Copper Canyon Press, 2024), his newest collection. We discuss subversive speech, belief and doubt, lyrical poetry, the psychology of poetic forms, and the power of ancient myths.

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Episode 89: Pádraig Ó Tuama, excerpts from Kitchen Hymns

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Deanna Mascle @deannamascle.bsky.social · 2d

Answer your complex questions about midlife reinvention: how it happens, all the reasons it can happen, and who gets the “privilege” of pursuing it. If you like rolling around all the ways we can (and sometimes struggle) to change our lives this is for you.

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Who Gets a Mid-Life Reinvention?

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Deanna Mascle @deannamascle.bsky.social · 3d

When discrimination is lower the GDP goes up - another MAGA lie busted: diversity is bad

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Is the economy slowing? Ask Black women.

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Deanna Mascle @deannamascle.bsky.social · 3d

We all need more stories in our lives to heal and to learn.

Using Comic Book Themes and Archetypes to Write About Humanity : Metawriting

What’s New? I no longer teach a Walking Dead themed class, but I am still teaching classes with themes because...

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Deanna Mascle @deannamascle.bsky.social · 4d

We all need more stories in our lives to heal and to learn. metawriting.deannamascle.com/using-comic-...

Using Comic Book Themes and Archetypes to Write About Humanity : Metawriting

What’s New? I no longer teach a Walking Dead themed class, but I am still teaching classes with themes because...

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Deanna Mascle @deannamascle.bsky.social · 4d

Our writing instruction is merely the apparatus where we play out this work, but the activity we engage in is what drives that work. metawriting.deannamascle.com/3-reasons-wr...

3 Reasons My Writing Classes Have Themes : Metawriting

My first several years as a college writing instructor my writing assignments followed the traditional modes of writing. I did...

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Deanna Mascle @deannamascle.bsky.social · 4d

Friday workshops really are a great way to end the week.

Crafting in Community : Metawriting

What’s New? This semester I am teaching on a M-W-F schedule for the first time in decades but as a...

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Deanna Mascle @deannamascle.bsky.social · 4d

Our writing instruction is merely the apparatus where we play out this work, but the activity we engage in is what drives that work. metawriting.deannamascle.com/3-reasons-wr...

3 Reasons My Writing Classes Have Themes : Metawriting

My first several years as a college writing instructor my writing assignments followed the traditional modes of writing. I did...

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Deanna Mascle @deannamascle.bsky.social · 4d

Traci Thomas and Zach Stafford unpack the conversation around "One Battle After Another," alongside two articles then explore how the movie portrays Black women, interracial relationships, and the aesthetics of the moment we’re in.

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Viral Article Book Club: The Politics of Race and Revolution in One Battle After Another

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