September 10 and 11, 2025

Hello, everyone!
Here is the next lesson for Wednesday and Thursday classes! Enjoy!

Part One
Idiom of the Day
Instructions: Please read the idiom in the following sentence, and write what you think it means!! Be sure to look for context clues, which will help you make good inferences!

Example: Ciara was tired of trying to get Sal to answer her; he continued to beat around the bush before finally getting in his car and going home!

Idiom Meaning: 

Question: Which words in the sentence helped you to understand what this idiom means? Circle or highlight them now!

Part Two
Literary Terms
Inference

An inference is much more than a simple guess! You make an inference when you look at a situation (or read something in a story) and use your background knowledge to decide what the story does not tell you! This could be similar to a prediction while reading, but it could also be simply deciding whether someone is angry by the way she walked into the classroom! We make this guess, which is actually an opinion, because of what we have experienced already! If we see someone shouting with a frown on her face, we make an inference that the person is angry because this is what it has meant in our past experiences!

Inferences are not always correct, just as we are not always correct when we form an opinion about someone or something! When reading a story, we make an inference, and if, as we read, we realize we may not be correct, we simply keep reading and create another inference!! If we make an inference about a person, but then we get to know them better, and they seem much nicer than we originally thought, we change our inference!! 

Can you make an inference about the following situations?

1. Syl speeds into the classroom, breathing hard, and sits down heavily in his seat.


2. Terri starts to raise her hand in class, but she then takes it down and looks back at her book.


3. Alonzo rolled his eyes when his aunt again asked him if he had gotten a new job.


4. Gina had a huge smile on her face when her brother's name was called to receive an award at the banquet.


Your Turn!
Directions: Create two or three sentences in which someone will have to make an inference about what exactly is going on! Be ready to share them with a partner!!








Part Three
Writing
Directions: Since we are about to start Chapter One in our Vocabulary Lessons, today's writing piece will be to use four of the new words in sentences in the space below. Have fun!
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