We began class today by reviewing how to make inferences. We had 4 lovely volunteers from our class act out four emotions, and as a class, we tried to guess what each person was feeling. We talked about how an inference is made when we take what we already know of people and behaviour (background knowledge) and we add that to what we see in front of us (textual evidence). Though we practiced this with actors and our observations of their behaviours, we also do this when we read, with respect to characters.
We then read the next chunk of the novel, and we set to work trying to make insightful, accurate inferences about our protagonist. Students were asked to fill in a character web, with traits to describe the character, plus evidence that proves he possesses each trait.
If you have not yet handed in your elements of fiction package, please do so next class.
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