FART.

Thinking. With consequences.

What does this teaching do for you? How does it connect to the world around you? What broader patterns does it help you notice?

Move between your experience, your relationships and the social structures shaping them. Question the connection. Follow what gets complicated. That’s the sociological imagination. It’s a fucking sociology class.

“The story says this” repeats the story. “This made me notice how I police myself—and where I learned to do that” begins analysing. The thinking can happen inside your comic, voice note, story or other form.

A rabbit turd with a bibliography remains a rabbit turd.

The horse can look like a potato.

Creativity means creative thought and expressive choice. It does not mean professional drawing, expensive equipment or a secret audition for the art department.

Try a connection you haven’t made before. Change perspective. Put an expectation into a ridiculous situation so we can see what it does. Take a leap with your thinking and choose a form that helps carry it.

Writing can be creative. A rough voice note can be creative. Analysis and creativity can happen in the same move.

Your ability to give a drawn hand five fingers is not being assessed. What is that hand DOING?

The rubric. Without the imaginary extra bits.

These are the two parts of each reflection. Production polish is not a third category. Neither is sounding like a journal article that swallowed a thesaurus.

Repeating class content does not show us what you’ve done with it. Show your thinking at work.

The measuring tape has been relieved of command.

There is no universal word count or video runtime hiding here. Give the thinking enough room to develop; stop when more material would just repeat it.

The syllabus compares the time and effort to a 4–6-page essay. That comparison is subjective. It is not a page requirement and absolutely not an invitation to write the essay.

Six pages of “I have met the minimum” is a very long way to say nothing happened.

Your request for a box has been received.

No academic or research essays. The syllabus explicitly says essay-shaped work loses marks. This is a chance to do the thinking another way.

You can use words: a dialogue, journal entry, poem, story, reflective paragraph, or another form that carries your own analysis. “No essays” does not mean words are contraband.

We noticed you requested freedom and immediately ordered walls.

Put the emergency bibliography down.

This reflection is about what you learned in class. Use the teachings, activities and course materials to develop your own connections. Outside research is not the assignment.

You do not need to collect other people’s arguments to make your thinking count. If you quote or use someone’s work, acknowledge it so we can follow the connection; attribution is not an instruction to manufacture a research paper.

The course readings are optional invitations to follow your interests, not a mountain you must finish climbing before you may have a thought.

Start where something caught.

A story, teaching, class conversation, activity or course-related question that did something to your thinking. What snagged, irritated, surprised or stayed with you?

It can be from earlier in the course. You do not need to cover everything, recap the whole lecture or choose an unrelated topic about Indigenous peoples.

Connect what happened in class to your life, the world around you and broader themes. Use first person. We want your thinking, not a tour of what “one might argue.”

Your comic does not need a security escort.

The analysis can happen inside the work. Images, sound, dialogue, sequence, juxtaposition and story can make an argument, question a norm or reveal a connection.

A few explanatory lines are fine if they help someone follow your choices. You do not need a compulsory essay explaining every colour and symbol.

The comic has not been arrested. Stop assigning it an academic chaperone.

Who installed the invisible examiner?

Come back to Smart Berries: repeating rabbit turds to prove you’re smart is still repeating rabbit turds. Then return to the Shuteye Dance and normative violence.

What happens when you’ve learned to expect punishment for stepping outside “normal”? An open assignment can start looking like a trap. You may find yourself building the very box this class keeps asking you to resist.

This is a small social environment where resisting that box is welcome. You can examine the pressure itself as part of your reflection.

No, you do not now have to perform the perfect breakthrough about your need to perform perfectly. The rabbit tried adding that requirement. We confiscated its pen.

An example is not a new species of law.

No. Someone else’s reflection shows one way a person made their thinking visible. It is not a template for your voice, length, medium or life.

Notice what their choices do. Then make choices that serve your own thinking.

We showed you an open door. Please stop measuring yourself against the doorframe.

One answer. No existential ambush.

Open the relevant reflection assignment in Google Classroom, attach your work and click Turn in. Emailing it does not replace turning it in there.

For a physical piece, photos or a recording can show it. Add context if it helps someone follow your thinking. If your format or access creates a problem, tell Maya through the assignment’s private comment.

The upload button does not need to become a spiritual trial.

A date. Not a defence lawyer.

You are responsible for taking an extension when you need one. You do not ask permission. No reasons, excuses or supporting evidence. Maya needs your date, not a defence of your right to need time.

1. Open the specific assignment in Google Classroom. Find its private comment area. Put your message there, attached to the assignment you need more time for.
2. State the actual calendar date you will have it done: month and day. Write “October 2,” not “Friday,” “next week” or “soon.”

   For example: “I’ll turn this in by October 2.”

   That is the whole message. No “Would it be okay if…” You do not need to wait for Maya to reply or approve it.

3. Take responsibility for that date. Work toward it and turn your assignment in by the date you gave.
4. Need more time? Update the date before it passes.

   Return to the same assignment’s private comments and say: “I’m changing my completion date to October 6.”

   Again: no permission request, no explanation, no waiting for a reply.

5. Repeat when needed. If your new date needs changing, post another date before that one passes. You can do this more than once. Keep the date current until you turn the work in.

When do late penalties apply? When the date you committed to passes and you have neither turned in the work nor updated that date. Needing an extension is not the thing being penalized. Leaving the commitment without a submission or an update is.

The rabbit has prepared a twelve-page Application to Deserve More Time. Please feed it directly into the shredder. Send the date.

Your private life is not the entry fee.

No. Personal analysis means your thinking is present. It does not require disclosing trauma or sharing material you want to keep private.

If the work contains something you don’t want to submit in full, contact Maya privately about another way to show the thinking—such as selected documentation or a summary. The arrangement depends on the work.

Depth is not measured in how much of yourself you leave on the institutional photocopier.

You can enter from here.

Visit the course site and work through the interactive activities for the weeks you missed. The Long Remembering gives you routes back through the historical story.

Use those materials honestly. You can connect them to your experience without pretending you heard a teaching you missed. Bring remaining questions to Maya.

This is a catch-up route, not a cancellation of the syllabus attendance requirements.

The rabbit does not assign your room.

Field Stickers help name ways people contribute. Participation includes more than collecting them: questions, listening, connections, helping others and accessible ways of joining the work.

Use the current Home Council instructions in Classroom. If the sign-up is full, you can’t get into your room, or you’re unsure what to submit, tell Maya. A full sheet is a coordination problem, not proof that you failed at belonging.

Sticker collection and submission arrangements follow the current class directions; this rabbit is not authorized to invent an extra deadline.

An idea is allowed to keep living.

Yes, a reflection idea can develop into a more substantial, interactive, community-facing project. Develop what it makes possible with others; don’t just submit the same piece twice.

Bring your proposed direction to Maya. An accessible learning platform is one example she has welcomed, not a compulsory model or automatic approval of every platform.

Your idea does not have to fake its own death between assignments.

The game is not a tunnel under the coursework.

Follow the Oddworld Hard Mode schedule in the syllabus. Document progress and your thinking at particular moments: reactions, connections, questions and your point of view. Gameplay recordings, screenshots, rough notes and voice memos can help carry that work.

Keep the sustained analysis. You still attend and participate. New ’n’ Tasty is an approved alternative to Abe’s Oddysee.

“I played a game” and “I analysed what happened while playing” are having different semesters.