this, my “innovating style”

maybe you met me and my post-it notes last year… “No one understands your relationship with paper but you… The fact is, your piles of paper make sense to you and represent ongoing, intellectual, active thoughts… You need it around because it enables your specialized thinking to work… Malcolm Gladwell… says of people like you, [...]

making thinking visible

meet my twilight: (and no, they’re not colour coded.  i did think about it though )

the way you make me feel/you knock me off of my feet

i am contemplating the very different effects books can have on the reader.  i am very curious about this. i noticed that reading the Twilight series was like a high-speed immersion laced with urgency.  i am going to generalize that this is a common effect of the series on more than just myself – the  [...]

how is twilight like anne of green gables?

thanks to dr. marian small { one two infinity }for the realization of how useful this question really is, and thanks to june 2009 chatelaine for provoking me to ask it. quote, too old for twilight? why are we too old for twilight, not admitting to enjoying it, apologizing for liking it, disparaging it, when [...]

fictional-real-life inferring

hey bella, caught you inferring!  haha, not so funny {i get it}, yet highly entertaining to be reading along in this hyper-aware state of metacognition, and infer that your protagonist is inferring in her “real life” and see her clues and schema that help her make her inference… haHA!!  talk about the circle of life [...]

how my schema helps me

back to itsy bitsies and friends, i notice that when Jessica, Angela and Bella discuss the “gossip” about all the adopted Cullen teenage siblings living together and “dating” at the same time, using my schema (background knowledge) helps me infer to understand more fully why this causes gossip in Forks.  Bella says, on p21, “Her [...]