Take a look at this music video. Listen to the words and how the musicians choose to represent the music. What inferences can you make about this song? Be sure to use evidence and schema when you write about the song.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Inference Lesson 3
So now we have been making lots of inferences - Remember, and inference is where you use schema (background knowledge) and evidence to help you understand the story (or picture, song, life situation) better.
Take a look at this music video. Listen to the words and how the musicians choose to represent the music. What inferences can you make about this song? Be sure to use evidence and schema when you write about the song.
Take a look at this music video. Listen to the words and how the musicians choose to represent the music. What inferences can you make about this song? Be sure to use evidence and schema when you write about the song.
Inference Lesson 1
To make an inference, or to infer, you have to have background knowledge - also know as schema (this is what you know - it can be from your life, a movie you saw, an experience you had, a book you read, etc) and EVIDENCE!
Using these two things, you then create an inference about what is going on, try to understand why something is happening, finding the meaning of an unknown word, or even understanding the what the charters are feeling! We use inferencing every day in our life.
For example - My mom comes home from work and has a very grumpy look on her face. The grumpy look and the fact that she is coming home from work is my evidence. My background knowledge is that when mom comes home from work she sometimes has had a rough day. I also know if I have a bad day I don't want to be bothered. My inference is that I shouldn't bother mom because she is in a bad mood.
Art leads us to make inferences because the artist isn't here with us as we observe the picture. We have to use evidence from the picture along with our schema (remember that is our background knowledge) to try and figure out what is going on in the picture.
Look at this picture by Horace Pippin.
Using these two things, you then create an inference about what is going on, try to understand why something is happening, finding the meaning of an unknown word, or even understanding the what the charters are feeling! We use inferencing every day in our life.
For example - My mom comes home from work and has a very grumpy look on her face. The grumpy look and the fact that she is coming home from work is my evidence. My background knowledge is that when mom comes home from work she sometimes has had a rough day. I also know if I have a bad day I don't want to be bothered. My inference is that I shouldn't bother mom because she is in a bad mood.
Art leads us to make inferences because the artist isn't here with us as we observe the picture. We have to use evidence from the picture along with our schema (remember that is our background knowledge) to try and figure out what is going on in the picture.
Look at this picture by Horace Pippin.
What kind of inferences can you make about this picture? What do you think the boy is thinking or feeling? What details in the picture do you notice? Write about this.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Sitting Still
Joey has a really hard time being able to focus his ind and calm his body. This leads to some very serious and funny situations through out the book. So far, Joey has swallowed a key, tried to sharpen his finger, and recently he stole a pie.
Has there been a time when you couldn't calm your body and mind? What did you do to help calm yourself? Do you have a strategy that really works for you?
Has there been a time when you couldn't calm your body and mind? What did you do to help calm yourself? Do you have a strategy that really works for you?
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