The Story of My Thinking

I used to think ...

Then this happened:

So now I think ... → →

Comparing Notes

What some people think

What other people think

What I think → →

Life Lesson

A life lesson I’ve

learned

One way I know it

Another way I know

it →

What I’d like to

remember about this

lesson

Another way I know

it → → →

What that tells me →

The Good Writer’s Guide, Program Author: Gretchen Bernabei, National Geographic School Publishing, Hampton-Brown

The Good Writer’s Guide, Program Author: Gretchen Bernabei, National Geographic School Publishing, Hampton-Brown

The Good Writer’s Guide, Program Author: Gretchen Bernabei, National Geographic School Publishing, Hampton-Brown

Wrong Assumption

Sensory Associations

When I hear/smell/ see ...

It reminds me of

____________

Which makes me

feel ... → →

Memory Reflections

Where I was

Moment it

started

Next

moment →

What I realized

Final

moment → → →

The reason I feel that way is ... →

The Good Writer’s Guide, Program Author: Gretchen Bernabei, National Geographic School Publishing, Hampton-Brown

The Good Writer’s Guide, Program Author: Gretchen Bernabei, National Geographic School Publishing, Hampton-Brown

The Good Writer’s Guide, Program Author: Gretchen Bernabei, National Geographic School Publishing, Hampton-Brown

I made this wrong

assumption

______________ Happened as a consequence

I learned this truth → →

So now I believe

______________ →

Something Big

Making a Change

I wanted to change

________________

But ____________

was stopping me

Even though I knew ... → →

Finding Out for Sure

I’ve never been sure

if ...

But I’ve always

suspected that ...

Because once I

experienced ... →

And finally I realized that ...

Which made me

think that ...

→ → →

So now I ... →

The Good Writer’s Guide, Program Author: Gretchen Bernabei, National Geographic School Publishing, Hampton-Brown

The Good Writer’s Guide, Program Author: Gretchen Bernabei, National Geographic School Publishing, Hampton-Brown

The Good Writer’s Guide, Program Author: Gretchen Bernabei, National Geographic School Publishing, Hampton-Brown

What the spectacular event was

How it made me feel

Why it made me feel

that way → →

What it made me realize →

Learning From Mistakes

→ →

→

→ → →

→

The Good Writer’s Guide, Program Author: Gretchen Bernabei, National Geographic School Publishing, Hampton-Brown

The Good Writer’s Guide, Program Author: Gretchen Bernabei, National Geographic School Publishing, Hampton-Brown

The Good Writer’s Guide, Program Author: Gretchen Bernabei, National Geographic School Publishing, Hampton-Brown

One way I got in trouble

What happened after that

What I thought about my

consequences → →

What I realize now →