[MOSAIC] cloze answers

[Bonita DeAmicis]

---- ginger/rob <read.think at sbcglobal.net> wrote: 
> You guys are so smart!  I totally fell for it when he handed it to me.  I 
> read it from my schema as a parent obviously!!!! Which I guess is the point.

Ginger,
I thought that was a really interesting activity.  I was thinking that perhaps the other thing this activity revealed to me is how stuck in schema I can be, trying to make it fit instead of looking for another schema.  I imagine that happens  quite a bit to students during reading. I remember an older movie, The Green Mile (I think) where the genre appears to start off as gritty, very human  jail movie and then changes into mixed fantasy genre at some point.  I loved the movie, but the genre change really threw me for a bit.  I always expect to know my genre within the first minutes and I think I get a genre "mindset."  When the book or movie changes--t is like I have to readjust.

:)Bonita

> You should have seen me, though.  I was so convinced that I could whip off 
> the correct words and yet when I got to the last two sentences my mind said, 
> "These two sentences don't really fit with the rest of the piece."  The 
> presenter said in all her workshops only once did a participant read it 
> correctly.  Read below to see why.
> Ginger
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