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By Keith Gray
Autumn 2: What Makes a Good Friend? Week 2 Lessons
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1) Visual game of deduction with umbrellas etc. Me acting, they saying how they think I feel. Students have to give verbal reasoning for their answers.
2) Read chapter 7 of Ostrich Boys.
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ATE Students are given a range of quotations displayed on the whiteboard from chapter 7.
They have to fill in a table with the column headings ‘quotation’; ‘what you infer or deduce’; ‘how you inferred or deduced it’
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Feedback to whole class.
What have we learnt about reasoning our inferences and deductions?
Resources:
Tuesday 16th November 2010
Inference and Deduction
PLEDGE – TITLE & DATE (UNDERLINED)COMPLETE THE TASK BELOW:
1) Using the dictionaries on your desk, write down definitions for the words ‘inference’ and ‘deduction’.
2) Try and explain what these things are in your own words
3) If you can, give an example of what these things are.
By the end of the lesson all of you will be able to:
define what inference and deduction are
explain what they infer and deduce from selected quotations in the novel
justify their inferences and deductions with sound reasoning.
Number 1 – 5 in your exercise book.
In the next few minutes I am going to do five different things that show that I feel a certain way or that
certain things are happening to me.
Watch what I am doing
Explain what I am feeling or
what is happening to me
Give reasoning to back up what
you are inferring or deducing.
Write down what I am doing...
What can you deduce or infer from what we have read. Copy and complete the table below leaving enough space to write at least a sentence in each box.
Quotation What do you deduce or infer
Give reasoning for this deduction or inference
“Sim glared at the back of the conductor’s head” (page 72)
“Which means occasional but pretend happy Christmases, or forced smiley picnics with Dad, Kim and her two kids...” (page 75)
Kenny, Sim and Ross had always felt “like my real family.” (page 77)
“the miserable old woman scowledand tutted at us.” (page 80)
“We raced towards the end of the tunnel, then, leaping for the light two steps at a time, burst up onto the northbound platform” (page 84)