1. Mysteries
Grade 7 ELA

2. Terms Simile: A comparison between two things using like or as.
i.e. Life is like a box of chocolates.
Metaphor: A comparison between two things that does not use like or as.
i.e. The sea is a hungry dog.
i.e. Igor is a monster.

3. Mysteries are like……
Fill out the graphic organizer in your notes with similes for mysteries.

4. Terms
Inferences: Making judgments, drawing conclusions and reasoning about text.  
Irony: Verbal Irony: When one thing is said and something else is meant.
Situational Irony: When you expect one thing to happen and something else happens.
Dramatic Irony: When one character knows something that another character does not know.
Idiom: is an expression that has a meaning different from the usual meaning of the individual words within it.

5. Mysteries
What does it mean to make INFERENCES ?

6. Mysteries
Making Inferences means increasing your understanding my making judgements, drawing conclusions, and reasoning about a text.
You come up with your own ideas about what is happening by reading between the lines.
The ideas that you come up with are not stated in the text.

7. Mysteries
Clues from the text
Prior Knowledge
Inference!

8. Mysteries
Be aware!!
Not all our inferences are correct! Be willing to confirm, change, or disregard inferences as you read on…

9. Mysteries
Example #1
Read the following paragraph and infer, or draw a conclusion as to what probably happened.
One summer day Joe and Ann were paddling their canoe. They planned to spend the day fishing and looking for wildlife. They had heard that sometimes dolphins swam up the creek. Suddenly there was a big splash in the water in front of their canoe. Then they knew that what they had heard was true.

10. Mysteries Can you guess what happened?
What can you infer about Joe and Ann?

11. Mysteries
They made sure everyone was wearing long pants, long-sleeved shirts, and socks before they pulled up at the lodge. They noticed that the two men working on the grounds in front of the lodge were wearing nets around their heads and necks and hands.
Example #2
Read the following paragraph and see if you can tell what the author wants us to know but isn’t saying…

12. Mysteries
How do you make use of Prior Knowledge to infer what is happening in this paragraph?

13. Mysteries Pre-reading activity:
What do you think are the most important skills needed by those who solve crimes?

14. The Killer’s tall tale
Read the story on page 119 using what you have learned to make inferences along the way.
Make inferences by: reading into what the characters say; how other characters react to them; by their actions.

15. The Killer’s tale - Questions
1.Define irony. What is ironic about the title of this selection? Discuss
2.List important skills (Character Traits) needed to solve crimes.
3.How does your background knowledge of crime investigation help you make reasonable inferences when reading mysteries?

16. The Killer’s tale - Answers
1.Irony: An outcome contrary to what was, or might have been expected. Tall tale: a story that’s exaggerated and have to believe.
2. Observant, factual, organized, disciplined, hardworking, etc
We know what CSI’s do, take pictures, look for evidence, etc.

17. Table What inferences can we make about Radley, the female detective?
What inferences can we make about Trellis?
What inferences can we make about Burton?
How are we making these inferences?
Radley
Trellis
Burton

18. Radley
Observant- she notices that Trellis looks taller than usual and she’s described as having a “mental notepad; sense of humour- she goes along with Trellis’s joking “translation” of what Burton meant to say to her. Must be a good interviewer of suspects because she makes Trellis nervous with her questioning.

19. Trellis
We know he is a police technician because he is carrying equipment; Burton is his boss. He sounds casual and lighthearted because he makes jokes; he might be insecure about being shorter than Radley. He seems intimidated by Radley. She makes him nervous with her questioning.

20. Burton
Burton: He’s a bit sarcastic, judging by the way he talks to Trellis. He is observant because he spotted the hair. He is organized because of the way his vest is described. Burton is not very friendly, we can tell this by how he greets Radley. Not very polite: the way he reacts to Trellis’ pun about sole/soul. He is a tough, no nonsense investigator “can we solve the crime first?”