Thursday, March 12

By the end of class, students will examine literary devices (irony and inferencing) in short fiction in order to improve literal and interpretive reading comprehension skills and make real world connections

DO NOW  - write definition of INFER into notebooks.

INFERENCE (noun) = an educated guess about what is to come or prediction based on evidence.

To INFER  (Verb) - the act of making an educated guess or making a prediction based on evidence.

Example: Because her umbrella was wet, I inferred that it was raining outside.

Direct Instruction

Inferencing ppt

WORD SPLASH

MAKE PREDICTIONS  - VIEW the COVER PAGE and write down two nouns, two adjectives and two verbs that describe the picture. List them in notebook. 

Consider the TiTLE - Lamb to the Slaughter - what might this mean? 

Make a prediction (inference) about what the story is going to be about.  

Guided

Read together pages - 317 to top of 320

Independent

To DO on NEOS:

1. Bases on what you know so far, what will Mary do next? Why do you think this?

2. WHAT IS THE IRONY IN THE TITLE OF THIS STORY?

3. Explain how Mary feels about her husband before she gets bad news. Tell me one thing that she says (quote it)and one thing that she does to lead you to believe this.

4. Identify one thing that Patrick Maloney does and one thing that he says  (quote it) that helps you infer that something is on his mind when he gets home from work.

5. From what we know of Mary's character, was it SITUATIONAL IRONY that she hit Patrick over the head with the leg of lamb? Or did you expect that? Why?

6. This one is in CRQ format. Be sure to answer all parts of the question:

Analyze Patrick Maloney's behavior as he delivers his news to Mary (top of page 319 / right column). What do you infer (predict) is happening and what kind of person can you infer Patrick is by what he says and how he says it?

View through her hitting him.

Check for understanding

Check independent work  / begin plot structure

 closure

Review questions / answers and make predictions.

Exit Pass

Explain how you would you have reacted if you were Mary. Do you think you would feel remorse afterwards?