Interpreting and Reinterpreting Images

Session Four

Reflect on inferences and evidence (implicit messages)

• Involve students in self-reflection or peer feedback regarding their responses for Deciphering the Implicit Message (Lesson Material). For purposes of formative assessment, you may wish to use Self-reflection or Peer-feedback Checklist for Deciphering the Implicit Message (Lesson Material) to guide the students through their reflections.

Extension: Compile individual interpretations.

• Organize students into five or six groups according to the drawing studied, and provide each group with a blank copy of Deciphering the Implicit Message (Lesson Material). Ask each group to discuss their responses and use the chart to compile the most plausible and well-supported inferences from their individual charts.

Share interpretations with class.

• Invite each student, or a representative from each pair or group, to present the (composite) findings to the class or post the (composite) data charts around the classroom. Display or project each drawing during the presentations. You may want to use a different format from the one selected for sharing the explicit message. For example, provide students with sticky notes. As they walk about the class to look at the drawings and charts, ask them to decide if they agree with the interpretations and evidence provided. Invite students to offer and support additional or alternative suggestions that they record on the sticky notes and post with the charts.