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By Keith Gray

Autumn 2: What Makes a Good Friend? Week 2 Lessons

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R DO NOW: Students use the dictionaries on their desks to write down a definition of inference and a definition of deduction. Students then have to try and put the definition into their own words and finally they have to give examples of where inference and deduction might be used.

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1) Visual game of deduction with umbrellas etc. Me acting, they saying how they think I feel. Students have to give verbal reasoning for their answers.

2) Read chapter 7 of Ostrich Boys.

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ATE Students are given a range of quotations displayed on the whiteboard from chapter 7.

They have to fill in a table with the column headings ‘quotation’; ‘what you infer or deduce’; ‘how you inferred or deduced it’

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Feedback to whole class.

What have we learnt about reasoning our inferences and deductions?

Resources:

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Tuesday 16th November 2010

Inference and Deduction

PLEDGE – TITLE & DATE (UNDERLINED)COMPLETE THE TASK BELOW:

1) Using the dictionaries on your desk, write down definitions for the words ‘inference’ and ‘deduction’.

2) Try and explain what these things are in your own words

3) If you can, give an example of what these things are.

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By the end of the lesson all of you will be able to:

define what inference and deduction are

explain what they infer and deduce from selected quotations in the novel

justify their inferences and deductions with sound reasoning.

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Number 1 – 5 in your exercise book.

In the next few minutes I am going to do five different things that show that I feel a certain way or that

certain things are happening to me.

Watch what I am doing

Explain what I am feeling or

what is happening to me

Give reasoning to back up what

you are inferring or deducing.

Write down what I am doing...

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What can you deduce or infer from what we have read. Copy and complete the table below leaving enough space to write at least a sentence in each box.

Quotation What do you deduce or infer

Give reasoning for this deduction or inference

“Sim glared at the back of the conductor’s head” (page 72)

“Which means occasional but pretend happy Christmases, or forced smiley picnics with Dad, Kim and her two kids...” (page 75)

Kenny, Sim and Ross had always felt “like my real family.” (page 77)

“the miserable old woman scowledand tutted at us.” (page 80)

“We raced towards the end of the tunnel, then, leaping for the light two steps at a time, burst up onto the northbound platform” (page 84)