1. English 72 (83R)
Week 11, Day 1
March 24, 2014
Professor E. Buchanan

2. Please turn in your homework
 Fact & Opinion Activity
 Vocabulary
 Please pick up one of the following:
 Sentences
 News article
 Connotative Meanings Handout

3. Agenda
 More Inferences and Fact & Opinion
 Connotation and Denotation

4. Inferences & Fact &
Opinion

5.  What is the speaker
inferring in this
cartoon?

6.  What is being
inferred in this
cartoon?

7.  What is the dog
inferring?

8. In Review
An inference is
An educated guess or
prediction about something
unknown based on
available facts or
information.

9. How to make inferences
 Be sure to understand the literal meaning.
 Notice details
 Add up the facts
 Look at the writer’s choice of words
 Understand the writer’s purpose
 Be sure your inference is supportable

10. Fact & Opinion
Each person has picked up a
sentence.
Read the sentence out loud
and indicate whether it is a
fact or an opinion,

11.  How do you know if something is a fact?
 A fact is a statement that can be proved.
 What are some ways to prove that
something is a fact?
 Historical evidence, documentation

12. Inference/Fact & Opinion
Activity
 Each group is going to read an article
from a news website.
 Read the article and write a summary
about it.
 In the summary, determine what the
author is inferring, along with deciding
what parts of the article are a fact, and
which parts are fiction. Underline facts,
and circle or highlight opinions.

13. Review Fact & Opinion
Homework

14. Vocabulary
 Definitions and Sentences
 Write the one you have been assigned.

15. Connotation &
Detonation

16. Denotative Meanings
Denotative meanings are
standard dictionary definitions.
They tell us what the words
name.

17. Connotative meanings
Connotative meanings
are the feelings or other
associations that
accompany a word.

18. Connotative Meanings
For example, the denotative
meaning of brother is a male
sibling. However, what else can
it mean?

19. What does Hollywood mean?
 Hollywood’ connotes such things as glitz,
glamour, tinsel, celebrity, and dreams of
stardom.
 In the same time, the name ‘Hollywood’
denotes an area of Los Angeles,
worldwide known as the center of the
American movie industry.

20. Which works has the more
positive connotation
 Tipsy or drunk?
 Bold or brash?
 Cheap or frugal?
 Assertive or argumentative?
 Untidy or sloppy
 Job or chore?

21. Let’s Practice

22. For Wednesday
 Literature Circle 6
 Choose a passage (2+sentences) from the
book that stood out to you. Why did this
passage stand out?
 Connotative Meanings activity.