Textual Evidence or Inference
Are Textual Evidence and Inference the same thing?
What is... NO, they are not the same
Dinka and Nuer have been stealing cattle from each other for as long as anyone can remember ("Modern War.")
Which of the following inferences does this textual evidence support?
a. The Dinka & Nuer tribes are new to conflict.
b. Cattle have religious significance to the Dinka and Nuer tribes.
c. The Dinka and Nuer tribes are NOT new to conflict.
What is ...C
What is Nya's tribe?
What is... Nuer
Which tribe is this article focused on, the Dinka or the Nuer?
What is... the Dinka
Is this textual evidence or inference?
What the author has written, exactly as it was written in the text. Usually, it is written in quotation marks and the authors name/article/page number are provided
What is... Textual Evidence
If people died in these raids, it was “maybe one, two or three,” said Madut. And the victims were almost always warriors, slain with the spears that were still the weapons of choice in southern Sudan in 1983... Rebellious southerners formed the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army, and young Dinka and Nuer began to carry AK-47s.
Which of the following inferences does this textual evidence support?
a. Dinka and Nuer began to carry AK-47s.
b. Mortality (death) rates among the Nuer and Dinka increased with the introduction of guns.
c. Warriors were the only victims of the war.
What is ...b
What is Salva's tribe?
Dinka
Which of the following quotes does NOT support the idea that cattle are culturally important to the Dinka tribes.
a. But the occasion is marred by what is missing: There will be no cattle given to the Duk-Fuel family today, historically the central transaction at this ritual ("Modern War.")
b.The family whose boy wants to marry a Duk-Fuel girl vows to give plenty of cattle when the four-decade-old war in this, Africa’s largest country, someday ends.
c. The dancing begins at 7:25 a.m. as the thump of a drum splits the cool morning air in the Mangalatore camp for the displaced.
What is... A
Is this textual evidence or inference?
Information you've gathered from reading the text which usually tells you how or why something is happening
What is... an Inference
Which of the following quotes does NOT support the idea that cattle are culturally important to the Nuer and Dinka tribes.
a. "Cattle raiding is [an old] tradition of pastoralists throughout East Africa, as natural here as a young man’s hungering for enough cows to pay the bride price for a wife ("Modern War.")"
b. "And both honor their scrawny, hump-backed cattle as the center of the temporal world ("Modern War.")"
c."Rebellious southerners formed the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army, and young Dinka and Nuer began to carry AK-47s ("Modern War.")"
What is... C
Where does Salva head after he is forced to leave his home?
Ethiopia
Hundreds of Dinka tribesmen and women have gathered at the Duk-Fuel family compound for a traditional dowry celebration. But the occasion is marred by what is missing: There will be no cattle given to the Duk-Fuel family today, historically the central transaction at this ritual ("Modern War.")
Which of the following is NOT an inference that can be made from the textual evidence above?
a. Weddings and Dowry rituals are important to the Dinka.
b. Cattle have an important place in Dinka ceremonies and cultural events.
c. Hundreds of Dinka Tribesmen and women have gathered.
What is... C
Is this Textual Evidence or an Inference?
"That year, the Khartoum government imposed Islamic law on the entire country, including the parts that were not Muslim, like the south, where people mostly adhere to traditional beliefs or to Christianity ("Modern War.")
What is ... Textual Evidence
Based on the textual evidence below, what can you infer caused the conflict between the Khartoum Government and the Southern Tribes?
"That year, the Khartoum government imposed Islamic law on the entire country, including the parts that were not Muslim, like the south, where people mostly adhere to traditional beliefs or to Christianity ("Modern War.")
What is... religion
What happens when Nuer tribesmen encounter Dinka tribesman in 2008?
What is... they are often hurt or killed.
Hundreds of Dinka tribesmen and women have gathered at the Duk-Fuel family compound for a traditional dowry celebration. But the occasion is marred by what is missing: There will be no cattle given to the Duk-Fuel family today, historically the central transaction at this ritual ("Modern War.")
Based on the textual evidence, what can you infer about how the tribe's relationship with tradition?
What is... the Dinka value and celebrate tradition,
OR the Dinka stribe to follow traditions even when it is difficult to do so,
OR tradition is important to them etc.
Is this Textual Evidence or an Inference?
Despite being enemies, the Nuer and Dinka have a great deal in common.
What is... and inference
Based upon the textual evidence below, what can you infer brought the tribes into "Modern War?"
If people died in these raids, it was “maybe one, two or three,” said Madut. And the victims were almost always warriors, slain with the spears that were still the weapons of choice in southern Sudan in 1983, when the war against the Arab north entered its current phase. That year, the Khartoum government imposed Islamic law on the entire country, including the parts that were not Muslim, like the south, where people mostly adhere to traditional beliefs or to Christianity. Rebellious southerners formed the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army, and young Dinka and Nuer began to carry AK-47s.
What is... technology, civil war and the introduction of modern weapons
When Salva and his uncle cross the desert, they encounter Nuer tribesman. What happens to Salva and his Uncle?
What is... Salva is tied up and robbed, his uncle is killed.
Based on the textual evidence below, what can you infer about how the Dinka feel about losing their cattle?
Holding the ceremony without cattle, Mabil says, reminds Dinkas that they have no property. “You cannot regain your land,” he says through an interpreter. “That is the great loss. We hope our leaders are working hard to get us back our land.”
What is... the Dinka are upset they have lost their cattle
or the Dinka feel hopeless/powerless without their cattle
something similar etc...