Today we are going to start reading “A Monster Calls” by Patrick Ness. We are also going to discuss the focus of our reading.
- to understand our focus for reading
- to read the first Chapter of our novel
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What is Literature?
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Six Steps in studying a novel…
Below is a brief overview of the 6 aspects involved when we examine a novel in depth:
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What does inference mean?
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“An inference is an idea or conclusion that’s drawn from evidence and reasoning. An inference is an educated guess. We learn about some things by experiencing them first-hand, but we gain other knowledge by inference — the process of inferring things based on what is already known.”
Here is another explanation (and example) of inference:
Inferencing. (1:46 minutes long)
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Complete the definition boxes:
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Let’s read Chapter 1.
(You can access the novel online, in text format as well as in audio format. The links are below…)
For easy reference, here are the Chapters (and their titles) of this novel.
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