Thursday, Feb 28, 2013

ENG1D -

Paragraphs - CHECK

Inferring - reading the lines

Interpreting - using your own perspective to come up with a conclusion about something

Just like with a language: interpreting means turning the other language into a language that you know.

Interpreting in our use: reading something and figuring out the meaning for yourself

When you infer, what you are doing is interpreting some information from what information you get from a source.

Inferring is looking at more than just the obvious, or more than the little bit that is given, and APPLYING YOUR OWN BRAIN - INTERPRETING

We’re going to make a T-chart - left side - WHAT I SEE - right side - WHAT I THINK


What I See: (REALLY SPECIFIC) - EXPLICIT - BASED ONLY ON THE “THING”


What I Think: (REALLY INTERPRETIVE) - IMPLICIT  (understood - stuff you know) - BASED ON THE THING PLUS YOUR SCHEMA (PRIOR KNOWLEDGE, BIAS, etc)
- the interesting aspect of interpretation is that it is a LOT about us

We need to learn how to infer and how to apply our thinking to what we read in order to create some kind of understanding.

There are levels of thinking in English class.

Level 1 - Explicit - the answer is in the text or obvious in the thing.

eg. there is a cat in a photo - what is in the photo? Answer: a cat.

This is about MEMORY - and I am not too worried about that.

Level 2 - INFERRING (implicit) - the answer is in your interpretation of the thing

eg. why is the cat happy? - who the heck can say for sure? It’s information YOU have to fill in - you have to read between the line

example from life - we read our friends’ moods by their body language, facial expression, tone, etc.

This is about your THINKING about what you SEE.

Level 3 - MAKING CONNECTIONS - you think of new associations and new ideas on your own

eg. think about endangered species, or how to look after a pet, or how to heal a certain animal injury or something.

really taking information and bringing yourself into it in a new way, or taking the information somewhere else in a new way’

- it is ALL about what you know, what you think, what you have in your SCHEMA