PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Take what you
already know
and make a guess
Draw personal meanings from text or pictures
Use clues to come to your own conclusion
what you already know about a topic
Your schema is like a "file folder" in your mind
John F. Kennedy in 1963 said “And this nation, for all its hopes and boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.”
Inference: Is he referencing the freeing of Mexican-Americans or African-Americans?
Piggly Wiggly grocery store was the first store where shoppers could get their own packaged foods. Before that the clerk had to weigh and package each item.
Inference: Did the customers like this change?
Radio became the most common communication medium in 1920. Three decades later television came along.
Inference: What would you infer about the sale of radios in the 1950’s? Increase or decline?