Citing Evidence to Make Inferences

Citing Evidence to Make Inferences

RI.6.1 Cite text evidence to support analysis

of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

Alma by Rodrigo Blaas

https://vimeo.com/4749536

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irbFBgI0jhM

IMAGINE

Imagine a text as an assortment of puzzle pieces. The colors and shapes provide clues, but you must figure out how the pices fit together to form a bigger picture or idea.

What? Why? When?

You must make an INFERENCE, or a logical guess based on details in the text and on what you already know from your own experiences.

By combining TEXT EVIDENCE, or pieces of information from the text, with your own knowledge, you can figure out the big picture or what the author is really saying.

How to Make Inferences

Text Evidence

Background Knowledge

How's the weather?

Evidence

The girl is wearing yellow rainboots.

Experience

I wear rainboots when it's raining.

It's raining.

The BIG Picture

Personal Experiences

Text Evidence

Background Knowledge

Emotions

Find the DEEPER Meaning

This makes me feel...

This reminds me of the time when I...

In class, we learned about...

According to the text,...

The Flu Game by Maureen McBride

Game 5 of the 1997 basketball playoffs should have been the game that the Chicago Bulls lost. It should, in fact, have marked the Utah Jazz's first NBA championship win. Michael Jordan, the Bulls' star player, had spent the previous 24 hours bedridden and dehydrated with what doctors bhad diagnosed as the stomach flu. He had lost weight and had missed two key days of practice leasing up to the game. It was a recipe4 for disaster.

But three hours before the start fo Game 5, the best player in the history of basketball suited up and appeared on teh court.

Though Jordan was visibly weak in the first quater, he had scored 17 points by the second, putting the Bulls ahead at half time. However, while Jordan spent the thrird quarter overcome by nausea and fatigue, Utah managed to reclaim the lead.

What is Michael Jordan's attitude toward competition?

Text Evidence

Experience

Michael Jordan was diagnosed with the flu before Game 5.

Playing sports while sick requires determination.

Text Evidence

Knowledge

Jordan's team depended on him greatly.

"I almost played myself into passing out just to win a basketball game," Jordan admitted later.

Michael Jordan's attitude is not stated, so you must use clues in the text to infer what he thinks.

What text evidence supports the inference that Michael Jordan is a fierce competitor?

With a partner, find evidence in the article that supports your answer.

Continued...

"In the third quarter, I felt like I couldn't catch my wind," Jordan said. "I was just trying to get myself through it."

In the fourth aquarter, Jordan scored 18 more points. Then, with only 25 seconds left in the game, he scored a 3-point shot, and the Bulls beat the Jazz by only two points. At the end of the game, Jordan collapsed into the arms of his teammate Scottie Pippen.

"I almost played myself into passing out just to win a basketball game," Jordan admitted later. "If we had lost, I would have been devastated."

How does Michael Jordan feel about losing?

Find and underline two sentences on this page that show what Michael Jordan thinks about it.

Which sentence best describes Michael Jordan's attitude toward playing basketball?

A Jordan now values his health more than the game.

B. He believes in playing to win under any circumstances.

C. He thinks showing up is more important than winning.

D. Jordan understands that a team can't win all the time.

BASED ON THIS ARTICLE, WHICH CHOICE SUMMARIZES WHAT MATTERS MOST TO MICHAEL JORDAN?

Explain what evidence from the text helped you infer Jordan's attitude toward playing basketball.

Inference Jeopardy

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