"Reading and W1iting About the New Humanities"' makes this claim on the very first page: "We need a new kjnd of thinking because we live in a world defined by possibilities, and possibilities go hand...

"Reading and W1iting About the New Humanities"' makes this claim on the very first page: "We need a new kjnd of thinking because we live in a world defined by possibilities, and possibilities go hand in ha.nd with risk and unintended consequences.'· How do "possibilities" define the life of our times, and what role docs "possibility" play in these uetailed accounts of reading and -Wliting? As you reread each section, ask yourself ,1bout the place of possibility in teaching and leaming. How does an approach that stresses possibility differ f rom one that p1ivileges strict mks, fi.,wd methods, and pre-ord:1i11ed answers'