Assignment Task: Select 1 smartphone image from the Interactive Smartphone Observations activity and analyze it.
Consider the following questions as you conduct your analysis:
- What details do you notice about the type of smartphone, its condition, its home screen, or the apps on it?
- What do the smartphone details reveal about the owner, such as their health, values, age, or wealth? What are your first reactions?
- What inferences can you make about the owner based on your observations?
Complete the Smartphone Observations and Inferences Table in which you:
- List 3 to 5 observations that you made about your selected smartphone in the Observations column.
- Provide 1 inference for each observation that indicates what each observation about the smartphone might tell you about the smartphone's owner (your audience) in the Inferences column.
Smartphone Observations and Inferences Table
Respond to the following questions about your observations and inferences. Start your answer on a new line.
1. Assume you located the smartphone owner's email address, and you want to write an email to the owner offering to return the smartphone. Consider your observations about the smartphone and what you believe are characteristics of its owner. Consider how the owner's characteristics might affect your tone, word choices, and sentence structure when writing to that person (your audience). Based on those considerations, draft your email in which you offer to return the smartphone to the owner.
2. Take a moment to reflect on the email you wrote and the process you used to write it. In a few sentences, discuss which observations and inferences most influenced your email. How did your knowledge of your audience affect your choices as an author?