Miss Nolan

Let’s play a game…

What is this?

What is this?

Who is this?

What is Calvin’s problem?

Objectives

I can:

• Identify the mood and tone of a sentence or paragraph.

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• Explain ways in which the author conveys mood and tone through word choice and figurative language.

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• Recognize these techniques at work in an excerpt from a literary text (Karen Hesse’s Out of the Dust)

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• Make use of these techniques in my own writing

Vocabulary

• Mood: a state or quality of feeling at a particular time.

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• Tone: the overall sound, feel, or attitude of a particular text. The author’s attitude expressed through the text.

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• Atmosphere: the general feeling created in the reader by the work at a given point.

What sort of mood is expressed in these film clips?

• Original Mary Mary PoppinsMary Poppins Trailer

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• “Scary Mary” Trailer

What sort of mood is expressed in these film clips?

• UP official trailer

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• ““fedUP“fedUP”“fedUP” re-cut trailer

A little more vocabulary…

• Word choice: an author’s choice of words.

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• Figurative language: language that employs figures of speech such as, imagery, simile, metaphor, etc…

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• Syntax: the arrangement- the ordering, grouping, and placement- of words within a sentence.

Example

• On a still, cloudy, and quiet autumn day I rode my horse through a rather drab landscape.

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• “During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country.”

-Edgar Allen Poe

Identifying mood/tone

“From the earliest I can remember

I’ve been restless in this

little Panhandle shack we call home,

always getting in Ma’s way with my

pointy elbows and fidgety legs.”

- Karen Hesse

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Identifying mood/tone

“Folks sway in the

Palace aisles

grinning and stomping and

out of breath,

and the rest, eyes shining,

fingers snapping,

feet tapping. It’s the best

I’ve ever felt…”

- Karen Hesse

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Identify the mood

Group 1

“From the earliest I can remember

I’ve been restless in this

little Panhandle shack we call home,

always getting in Ma’s way with my

pointy elbows and fidgety legs.”

• Karen Hesse

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Pg. 4

“Folks sway in the

Palace aisles

grinning and stomping and

out of breath,

and the rest, eyes shining,

fingers snapping,

feet tapping. It’s the best

I’ve ever felt…”

• Karen Hesse

Pg. 13

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Group 2

Think, Write, Pair, Share…

Write your own opening sentence to a story:

• Think: Take a moment to think about the mood on your note card. How would you create that mood in the first sentence of a story.

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• Write: Jot down some ideas and a rough sentence using your mood.

• Word choice: an author’s choice of words.

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• Figurative language: language that employs figures of speech such as, imagery, simile, metaphor, etc…

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• Syntax: the arrangement- the ordering, grouping, and placement- of words within a sentence. Structure of the sentence.

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Vocab/tools for your sentences:

Think, Write, Pair, Share…

Write your own opening sentence to a story.

• Pair: Work on your sentence with a partner. Try and guess each other’s mood.

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• Share: Read your sentence to the class. Make us feel your mood.

• Word choice: an author’s choice of words.

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• Figurative language: language that employs figures of speech such as, imagery, simile, metaphor, etc…

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• Syntax: the arrangement- the ordering, grouping, and placement- of words within a sentence. Structure of the sentence.

Vocab/tools for your sentence.

Objectives

I can:

• Identify the mood and tone of a sentence or paragraph.

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• Explain ways in which the author conveys mood and tone through word choice and figurative language.

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• Recognize these techniques at work in an excerpt from a literary text (Karen Hesse’s Out of the Dust)

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• Make use of these techniques in my own writing

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So what?...

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Why is this important? What effect will this information and these skills have on you as a person and in your lives?

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