Expressing Interpretations

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Expressing Interpretations
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• Interpretation, not retelling
• Better answers evidence
• - evidence makes sense (in terms of
  conventions)
• - amount of evidence
• - amount of interpretation
• - expression of interpretation

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From Interpretations to Arguments

• Argument Thesis supported by evidence
• Look for the recurring patterns in your
  interpretations to find your theses

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Retrieval Chart

• Significant features

Possible interpretations
(Evidence)
(Theses/claim statements)
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Avoid the checklist approach Save the shopping
list for Woolworths

• Interpretations (ideas)- first
• what responses are encouraged
• Evidence (techniques) second
• how they are encouraged

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• Step 1
• One of the main ideas/attitudes/impressions/
  responses created by the passage is .
• Step 2
• This idea/attitude/impression/response is
• conveyed through evoked by
• constructed by
• can be seen in the way
• created by
• suggested by
• elicited by

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Structured answers
How not to get tangled up

• Answer Types
• Multiple ideas
• One big idea
• Contrasting ideas

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Multiple ideas
Intro Interpretations
Supporting evidence and explanation
Interpretation 1
Supporting evidence and explanation
Interpretation 2
Interpretation 3
Supporting evidence and explanation
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Multiple Ideas

• Intro Outline multiple ideas
• This passage suggests a number of ideas about
  Conradin. Most obviously, Conradin is portrayed
  as a very sad and lonely boy. Second, not
  surprisingly perhaps, Conradin seems to be
  consumed by hatred. Finally, the passage also
  suggests that Conradin has a wonderfully vivid
  imagination.
• Para 2 1st idea supporting evidence
• Para 3 2nd idea supporting evidence
• Para 4 3rd idea supporting evidence
• Para 5 Conclusion

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One big idea
Intro Interpretation and main points of evidence
Explanation
Supporting evidence 1
Explanation
Supporting evidence 2
Supporting evidence 3
Explanation
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One Big Idea

• Intro Outline main idea and indicate main
  areas of supporting evidence
• Passage 1 constructs Conradin as a desperately
  unhappy little boy whom the reader is invited to
  feel sorry for. This impression is created by the
  callous way he is treated by his Aunt, the
  miserable garden in which he has to play and the
  fact that he has to lose himself in his warped
  imagination to find entertainment.

Para 2 Supporting evidence Para 3 Supporting
evidence Para 4 Supporting evidence Para 5
Conclusion
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Opposing Ideas

• Intro outlines opposing ideas
• Like all texts, the passage from Sredni Vashtar
  can be read in a variety of ways. On the one hand
  the passage can be read as encouraging sympathy
  for Conradin because of his miserable existence.
  On the other, it can also be read as constructing
  Conradin as a rather sinister character whose
  twisted imagination might repel many readers.
• 1st group of paras first idea supporting
  evidence
• 2nd group of paras opposing idea supporting
  evidence
• Conclusion

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• Activity
• Using one of the answer types, produce an
  introduction for an answer to the following
  question
• How are readers encouraged to view the main
  character in the passage from Rodney Darling.