#ela

[wirelessshiba]

SaMOUSE Aran! 🐭 ☄️

[alcrego]

📽errror.wav

1258↔1332

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[i-will-arise-and-go-now]

𝑳𝒂𝒄𝒐𝒄𝒌 𝑨𝒃𝒃𝒆𝒚

𝓟𝓱: 𝓚𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓪

[voltaical-art]

alternate doodle I really liked the inks of :)

[frederickchiltonsdivacup]

"MORE MENTALLY ILL PROTAGONISTS WRITTEN BY MENTALLY ILL AUTHORS!!!" You couldn't finish No Longer Human because "he's delusional" and you thought The Catcher In The Rye was "too whiny." You thought The Bell Jar was "too depressing," and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was "too confusing." You already have what you want; you just don't like it because it isn't palatable.

[eldstunga]

Ela causing trouble, part of a sketch page for @luciddreamsofmachines

Thank you so much <3

[inspired-lesson-plans]

By your reckoning, do today's college students have the reading comprehension necessary to properly engage with difficult texts?

Yes

More yes than no

Maybe

More no than yes

No

I have no opinion on this

Voting ended onSep 17, 2025

Your comments and nuance are greatly appreciated.

This is part 1 of what may be a very long post.

Part 2 is the preface, introduction, and full table of contents

Part 3 is the summary of the academic article that inspired this post

Part 4 is a closer look at the results of that study

Part 5 is about the Think Aloud method, which isn't super interesting until you're really interested in this whole thing

Part 6 is about Dickens's Bleak House, the text at the heart of the article.

Part 7 is an explanation of the Degrees of Reading Power test, and my descent into madness.

Part 8 is a scientific perspective on the study.

Part 9 will be my honest analysis of the study, positive and negative, as an educator and a humanist.

Part 10 is the conclusion.

Lesson Plans to follow.