UNIT LEARNING TARGET�I CAN ANALYZE A TEXT BY CITING TEXTUAL EVIDENCE

INFERENCE

Identify and explain a conclusion based on complexity and insight drawn from the text

SUCCESS CRITERIA

• I can make observations about a text and take notes
• what a character says,
• doesn’t say,
• how they say it,
• what’s described in detail,
• what’s left out
• I can develop a clear and complex inference (a conclusion based on the text).

STEPS TO INFERENCE

INSIGHT

• The ability to arrive at a big idea using only small clues
• Pay attention to the little things that add up.

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COMPLEXITY

There are multiple factors that shape what is “true”

DONT

• Make broad or simple generalizations

DO

• Explore carefully
• Consider multiple influences on events
• Explain tension of multiple forces

TRY

• SUMMARIZE
• NOTICE
• THINK�FEEL

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The narrator is scared while he is deer hunting.

COMPLEX AND INSIGHTFUL

The narrator feels pressure and stress from his family and society to take part in this rite of passage, killing a deer, in order to be accepted “as a man” and while searching for acceptance he feels unprepared, anxious, and even sick.

Making Observations

• Look for anything you think is interesting or important
• what a character says,
• doesn’t say,
• how they say it,
• what’s described in detail,
• what’s left out

• SUMMARIZE
• NOTICE
• THINK�FEEL

Period 2 - Insight observations

• Dad and wife’s sisters???
• Makes decision to “be a dad”
• Checked emotions
• Apologized
• “swore” marked shift
• Hug instead of frustration
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With a partner, share the 3-5 details you think are most important to this story.

With a Partner, discuss these questions.

• Explain what the daughter’s request suggests about her relationship with her father? How do you know?
• Why is the boy so eager to go hunting? What details support this?
• Evaluate: Using evidence from Carver’s story, do you think that even though the boy is very young, he is still a conscientious and caring father and husband. Why?
• Evaluate the complexity of this seemingly simple story: What is Raymond Carver showing his readers about relationships?

Well, that’s weird

• 3rd person, no names�
• Frame (Milan, Italy to Dentist office in America to waffles to Milan, Italy)

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• Openly talks about wife’s sisters? Woah.

Making Inferences

• IN GOOGLE CLASSROOM
• Question: Interpret why this story is told in third person despite the speaker recounting a story to his daughter about himself.

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• Try to write the best explanation you can. Use insightful evidence and reference the text in your response to address the complexity of this seemingly simple story.

INFERENCE EXAMPLE

• The narrator may be trying to distance himself from his former bad habits or painful memories, even memories not explicitly stated in this story. Instead of telling about his strained, young, and eventually failed relationship, the father tells the story simply about “a boy”which implies the youth of the character. This could be the narrator disassociating with some of the later painful memories. While the narrator’s story of he and his wife’s disagreement about a hunting trip ends in love and affection, the marriage fails (highlighted by the daughter’s question and the fact the father and daughter are alone at Christmas). He regrets the way the relationship changed after this fight and is torn between remembering the connection they once shared (“He stays by the window, remembering… They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come”), and the pain of breaking apart. Calling himself the boy, instead of “I”, allows this young version of himself to be someone else, not him today.