By the end of this lesson, students will:
1. Read behind the literal meaning to
make inferences (the seventh Key of
Reasoning.
2. Consider implications (the eighth of
Keys of Reasoning).
1. Share your reflections.
2. I will also share and reflect on what I
have observed the learning with you.
Prior Knowledge:
Key 1 – Issue
Key 2 – Purpose
Key 3 – Points of view
Key 4 – Assumptions
Key 5 – Concept
Key 6 – Supporting Information
1. Given the information, what inferences
can be made?
2. How did you reach this conclusion?
3. Is there another way to interpret the
information?
1. What are you implying when you say that?
2. What is likely to happen if we do this versus that?
3. What are the implications of using different methods to address
the issue/conflict to arrive at the conclusion?
More advanced:
4. What are the consequences of manipulating or eliminating some
of the conditions?
5. How can we find out?
6. What does this question assume?
7. How could someone settle this question?
8. Can we break this question down at all?
9. Is this question clear? Do we understand it?
10. Is this question easy or hard to answer? Why?
11. Does this question ask us to evaluate something? What is that?
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gshbJ9CfbQ8
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh2LmUYqUTE
• http://www.lyricsdepot.com/simon-
or
garfunkel/sounds-of-silence.html
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeNQ5oT5rOg
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_hGQuTjI3U
1.What do you infer from the
song/commercial? (Or what do you think to
be true from the story?)
2.What are the messages you want to give
when you say that?
1. Skim and scan some information on a motion:
This House believes that tackling of groundlevel pollution should be accelerated.
2. You have two minutes to make inferences for
an affirmative resolution.
3. When you hear ‘Switch’, make rebuttals against
the affirmative resolution.
4. Use the guiding questions of the two keys,
Inferences and Implications to build arguments.
1. Read several famous speeches.
• http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/20/oba
ma.politics/index.html
• http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/previous.h
tm
2. List any speech writing techniques.
Take-home Job