5/17/2023 0 Comments Nytimes quiz![]() ![]() ![]() This appointing? How is this messiah both “real and not real”? What does the use of language like “corporate” in italics imply about what hip-hop fans want in an artist? Why does the What does this add to your understanding about what you’ll read in the rest of the article? What is this writer implying about how “hip-hop messiahs” come to “be appointed”? Who does Hip-hop feels too boring, or, worse, too corporate, an artist will be appointed as the spiritual future of the form.īut the hip-hop messiah is also a prospective title: When he’s anointed, it’s not for the work he’s already done, but more for the work he should do. He - and with the possible exception of Lauryn Hill, it has always been a “he” - is real in the sense that every five years or so, whenever The hip-hop messiah is both real and not real. Then you read the lede, or opening, paragraphs: Now what can you infer about the article’s content from the headline? For instance, how do you think an article called “Notes on the Hip-Hop Messiah” might differ from one called, say, “CrowningĪ New Hip-Hop Messiah”? How do words like “notes on” make the former more tentative and open-ended than the latter? Is expected to save people from a very bad situation” - seems to fit better. The second, more metaphorical definition - “a person who “the expected king and deliverer of the Jews Jesus”), but this doesn’t seem to be implying exactly that kind of messiah. What can you guess about the piece just from that headline? You know the term “messiah” is often used in a religious context (as Merriam-Webster defines it, Make Inferences as a Pre-Reading Strategyīy skimming through the paper and looking just at headlines, photographs and opening, or “lede,” paragraphs, students can practice making inferences about what articles will be about.įor example, let’s say you’re a hip-hop fan, and, scrolling through The Times, you find the headline “Notes on the Hip-Hop Messiah.” To read more about how teachers use the feature, and to find 10 intriguing images to start with, visit this post.Ģ. ![]() The feature is live-moderated by experts at Visual Thinking Strategies, and students are encouraged to make inferences throughout. Invite students to weigh in on what they see and why. Conveniently, we have a weekly feature in which studentsĮach Monday we post a mystery photo in our What’s Going On in This Picture feature and We also came across this video on YouTube and thought it did a handy job of explaining the skill in an academic context:ĭoing what you did with the photo at the top of this post is a great way to practice the skill and become aware of how often, and in how many ways, you employ it. If you hear a person’s weight is 250 pounds, you might make the inference Reading between the lines or just looking carefully at the facts and coming to conclusions. 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. Our friends at provide the following definition:Īn inference is an idea or conclusion that’s drawn from evidence and reasoning. Gimeno of Spain competing in the preliminary round of the men’s high dive at the FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia.”īelow, more possibilities for practice - with both visual and written texts. 3 Pictures of the Day post, and the caption reads, “Carlos Make a few suggestions for matching it to Times content.īelow, ways to strengthen the key skill of making inferences - something all good readers do constantly, mostly without even realizing they are doing it.įirst, though, if you inferred from a few clues (the bathing suit, the open arms, the fact that humans can’t fly) that the photo above shows a diver in mid-dive, you’re right. We’ll describe why and how to practice it, and then we’ll In every Skills and Strategies post, we’ll focus on either a skill that students need or a strategy teachers can use across the curriculum. This week, we’re reintroducing a lesson plan format - Skills and Strategies - that we’veĮxperimented with in the past but have further streamlined for the 2015-16 school year. Now: What can you infer - or make an educated guess about - based on what you see? Why? Teaching Ideas Based on New York Times Content. ![]()
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