In a 2003 interview with The New Yorker, distinguished Novelist and Author Toni Morrison stated, “Teaching is about taking things apart; writing is about putting things together.”  As a writing and rhetoric teacher by training, Morrison’s statement captures the essence of my pedagogical goal: walk alongside students as we take things apart and put them back together. Early in the semester, my students and I take things apart by dismantling myths about writing, literacy, language, and technology, especially as they are related to race, gender, class, and disability in American contexts. We take apart current events by focusing on the mediums and modes of communication, and we disassemble our own experiences with language and technology to develop a better understanding of who we are as authors and composers. In the latter half of the semester, we transition from breaking apart to putting together. For me, this means working with students to compose words, sounds, and images to effectively communicate to real and imagined audiences. Ultimately, my aim is to help students assemble ideas about social justice and access to create more just understandings of the worlds in which we interact.