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velvetpage ([personal profile] velvetpage) wrote2009-01-15 06:14 pm
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Friends list, I need your help.

I need scenarios where my students might reasonably infer what was happening, in language and theme that is fine for ten-year-olds. For example:

1) A young man arrives at his girlfriend's house, bearing a dozen red roses and a small jewelry box.

2) Sirens go off in the middle of the night; when you look out your window, you see an ambulance parked in front of the house of your elderly neighbours.

Give me more. I'm typing them onto inference cards and making a game of them for my kids.

[identity profile] hannahmorgan.livejournal.com 2009-01-16 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
Not quite a direct answer, but I can't remember if you and I have talked about this. Have you done comic strips with them, where you white out the dialogue of comic strips and then have them infer what's going on? That's a lesson I'm preparing to do with my new batch of Grade 10s.

[identity profile] velvetpage.livejournal.com 2009-01-16 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
No - I'm too lazy to dig up the comic strips and doctor them. :)