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About the Book & Author •• Courses & Workshops •• Sample Syllabus •• Order Drawing/Writing •• Sample Drawing/Writing •• Drawing/Writing Bulletin Board •• 13 principles for brain-compatible teaching and parenting •• Terms and Powerful Ideas •• The Scribble Hypothesis - The Entire Paper •• The Scribble Hypothesis - Abstract with Research Questions •• Paper in progress: The abstract for the paper Infant Laughter, Toddlers' Scribbles and the Metaphorical Three Year old •• Scribbles: The missing link in a theory of human language in which mothers and children play major roles •• Scribbles: The Missing Link in a Bio-Evolutionary Theory of Human Language with Implications for Human Consciousness - Presented at poster session, "Towards a Science of Consciousness 2004" •• Speaking in Tongues, or Glossolalia, consciousness states, and the mind/body benefits of fluent spiritual speech: Extending the purpose of linguistic experience - To be presented at poster session, "Towards a Science of Consciousness 2006" •• A Theory of Marks and Mind: the effect of notational systems on hominid brain evolution and child development with an emphasis on exchanges between mothers and children •• Multiple Literacies •• Article: The Scribble Hypothesis - Invisible Brain Building •• Scribbling, Drawing, Reading and Writing. Are these skills connected? A Parent’s questions, a teacher’s answers •• Just for Parents •• New Standards for Students and Teachers •• The Thinking Child: A handbook for parents •• Research Questions by chapters, appended to the forthcoming book: The Scribble Hypothesis: How Marks Change Minds © 2002 Susan Rich Sheridan

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Visual Fugue

Two-Part Assignment

1. Write a Visual Canon, with 12 “measures”
2. Explain it in words - that is, write the story of the pictures
3. Write a Musical Canon, with 12 measures, to go with the story above
4. Write the lyrics to go with the story and measure of music

The sun, and rain, clouds and snow are weather. Trees are full bloom, or bare, depending on the weather. The seasons are planned for growth.

Visual Fugue:

1. Come in on “FIRST BEAT”
2. Box above or below can “NOT GO” – be DISSONANT
3. Box above or below can “NOT GO” – be DISSONANT
4. Resolve dissonance on 2nd or 4th “BEAT”

1. 4 beats to measure – begin and end on C
2. 3rd and 5th ; and 6th octaves – match – consanant
3. 2nd, 7th, 9th, 11th, 13th: Do not match – Dissonance
4. Resolve Dissonance on 1st or 3rd (or 2nd or 4th) beat on (or 2nd or 4th)

Start each new voice 5 notes above or 4 below