Inference
What is an "inference"?
What is an educated guess?
What is reading between the lines?
What is the process of drawing conclusions from supporting evidence?
What is to make sense of clues?
What is the point of view of a text?
What is the perspective from which a narrator tells a story?
What is a pronoun?
What is a word that replaces a noun or noun phrase?
What is the purpose of text evidence?
What is to support and prove educated guesses about a text?
What is a "character"?
What is a person or animal that takes part in the action of the story?
What two types of pieces of information must someone add together to form an inference? (Picture the inference chart)
What are text evidence and schema (background knowledge)?
What words in a text does one use to determine point of view?
What are pronouns?
Which subject pronoun would replace the italicized antecedent:
Mary and the boys went fishing.
What is "they"?
What are two different types of text evidence?
(List two) What are a direct quote, a paraphrased quote, or a summary?
In the excerpt, the character has willingly gone into an abandoned building. Despite this act of bravery, what does the reader learn about Greg in this excerpt?
What is that Greg is still a typical teenager who can feel vulnerable emotions, such as being scared, even though he makes decisions like leaving home to avoid his dad, walking around in a storm, and going into the building?
What emotion can you infer Greg is feeling in the following excerpt? (E1)
What is anxious? (nervous, scared, frightened, petrified, paranoid, etc.)
What does the point of view affect for a reader?
What is the mood?
What is the word that the pronoun refers to?
What is the antecedent?
What is a piece of text evidence from paragraph 7 that explains what the beige tweed miniskirt symbolizes? (E2)
What is the dialogue from the mother: "'You want to be the same as American girls on the outside...But inside you must always be Chinese. You must be proud you are different. Your only shame is to have shame.'"?
A foil is a character that is in the story to show contrast to the main character. In this story, what character(s) are included as a foil for the narrator and her family? (E2)
What is the minister's family, a white, American family, including the narrator's crush, Robert?
Based on the last paragraph, what lesson do you infer the narrator has learned from her Christmas experience? (E2)
What is she has learned that the people who truly love her are her family members who share her Chinese heritage?
What are the four points of view?
What are first, second, third limited, and third omniscient?
What are the four pronoun types?
What are subject(ive); object(ive); possessive; and reflexive?
What phrases from the excerpt supports your background knowledge that storms can be dangerous? (E1)
What is "the wind has picked up"?
What is "rain....that shook the windows in their frames"?
What is "tires hissing over the wet street"?
What four pieces of information are important for understanding a character? (Picture the character map)
What are feelings; physical description; behaviors; and personality traits?
What inference can you make about parent-teenager relationships based on Greg and his father; Elaine and Mrs. Pringle; and Roger and Mrs. Jones?
What is parents and teenagers can have strained relationships when kids do not act in line with what adults expect of them to form a better future?
How would the excerpt have been different if it was written from first person POV? (E1)
What is the thoughts and feelings of Greg would have been revealed to the reader directly?
What types of pronoun is italicized in this sentence:
The girl bought him a present for Christmas.
What is an object(ive) pronoun?
What sentence from the excerpt would best support the inference that the character is frightened? (E1)
What is "His stomach tightened as he held himself still and listened intently."
How does the narrator change throughout the story? (E2)
What is the narrator changes by first being ashamed of her Chinese culture to later understanding that her Chinese culture is part of her identity and heritage.