McGonagall's Morning Musings

By Brent E White

Punctuation, and especially line breaks, causes an unconscious, momentary pause in our thought processes. This mental blink is when neural pathways reroute from merely reading and goes through the cognitive parts of our brain. This aids in comprehension and memory. Do your own research! With this realization I decided to begin breaking my essays down into verse, with the line breaks strategically placed to cause the reader to pause and ponder. It should be no secret that ADHD kids are quite often the smartest kids in the class, but get the lowest grades. This technique of breaking things down into smaller bits has had fairly dramatic and positive results for my students. I am frankly flabbergasted as to why Special Ed. teachers don't use this technique. Having said that, my verse is not the most horrible in the galaxy - the second worst, at best. I'm hiding under the McGonagall moniker from the Galactic Gendarmes who have declared jihad against my musings. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1304705803
• ISBN13: 9781304705808
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"