Monthly Archives: July 2025

Crot Essay Part 3 – 3-Panel Comic Activity

Posted on July 31, 2025 by pamelam62

After the X-page activity, we discuss the first eleven pages of Scott McCloud’s chapter 1, “Writing With Pictures” from Making Comics. This chapter introduces students to McCloud’s five Choices of Clarity: choice of moment, choice of frame, choice of image, … Continue reading →

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Crot Essay Part 2

Posted on July 22, 2025 by pamelam62

For homework for the second day, students need to finish their Childhood Learning Moments Timeline. I start my class slides with a Winston Weathers’ 1984 definition: “The crot is an obsolete word meaning a “bit’ or ‘fragment, ‘ the crot may … Continue reading →

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Teaching All Learning Types Through The Crot Essay Assignment

Posted on July 7, 2025 by pamelam62

I gave a presentation at the Southern Regional Composition Conference in May titled “20th Century Crot Esayy Meets 21st Century Multimodality.” I wanted to write an article about this assignment, so I’m making myself write this post as the first … Continue reading →

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