Session 1: Facts, Assumptions, and First Impressions
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Prepare
5 min
Watch
10 min
Discuss
8 min
Student task
12 min
Learning goals
- Students distinguish a story fact from a character’s assumption.
- Students explain an initial opinion using one story detail.
Teacher preparation
Materials
Session 1 low-ink evidence sheet, Pencil
Before reading
Open the conversation
“What is the difference between what we know and what we think might be true?”
During reading
Evidence-based pauses
After the narrator names Jeremy as his enemy
Which details are facts? Which part is the narrator’s conclusion?
When Dad begins making the pie
What does the narrator assume the pie will do? What evidence does he have?
After reading
Three levels of discussion
- 1
comprehension
Why does the narrator call Jeremy an enemy at the beginning?
- 2
inference
What does the narrator expect will happen when Jeremy eats the pie?
- 3
connection
What question could you ask before deciding what someone is like?
Support
- Use the frames “The story says ___” and “He thinks ___.”
- Allow drawing plus an oral explanation.
Core task
- Record one fact from the story.
- Record one assumption the narrator makes.
- Circle the evidence that supports your answer and share it with a partner.
Extend
- Write a question the narrator could ask Jeremy to test his assumption.
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