November 22th, 2017 Make sure your essay is turned in: Final Draft Rough Draft Literary Brainstorming Sheet Rubric Grab your Bellwork Journal. In your Journal: How does an observation about a text turn into an inference?

BELLWORK, Wednesday, Nov. 22 In your journal: How does an observation or idea about a text become an inference? During the lesson: How does using the “Notice and Focus” strategy help in developing an inference and eventually a thesis?

Notice and Focus in a Painting What do you notice? What do you find most INTERESTING? What do you find most STRANGE? What do you find most REVEALING? Remember 10 on 1 – Notice 10 details about ONE figure, image, etc. in the painting.

Notice 10 details about ONE figure, image, etc. in the painting

Notice and Focus in a Painting Ranking as a Group What three details (specific features of the subject matter) are most interesting (or significant or revealing or strange)? Explanation as a Group Why did the things you selected strike you as the most interesting (or revealing or significant or strange)?

Three Details and Explanation

Notice and Focus in a Painting So What? As a group determine: Why does each observation matter? What conclusions can we draw from the observation? What evidence or reasoning supports the conclusion?

Inference Inference A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning. Evidence Textual evidence: Evidence within the text that should support a specific point Explicit Textual Evidence: Stated directly in the passage Implicit Textual Evidence: Not stated directly, but the reader, spectator, or viewer understands.

Inference in a Painting When you make an inference you need two kinds of information: What do we know about the text (background knowledge) What you observe about the text (clues, i.e. explicit and implicit evidence).

Make an inference about the external conflict Make an inference about the external conflict. Make an inference about the internal conflict.

Make an inference about who the protagonist and the antagonist of the painting are.

Make an inference about the setting Make an inference about the setting. What observation you made complicates the conflict?

Make a predication about what happens next and identify a detail that helps you make that predication.