English Fun and Exciting

Day Four-Juniors

Agenda

• DOL• Discuss writing better sentences.• Discuss Tone/Mood• Read The Raven• Watch Simpson’s Clip of Raven• RAFT homework assignment

DOL

1. i was so tired i wanted to lay down my dad he suggested that I ate in an hour

2. the new employee was requested to do there things first complete the Form second submit a reference and third he was asked to mail a resume to the personnel office

Analogies:1. Prosaic : exciting :: _____________ : creative

2. ____________: novelist :: Emily Dickinson : Poet

Better Sentences

• Worksheet

Tone/Mood

• ToneThe author’s attitude, stated or implied, toward a subject. Some possible attitudes are pessimism, optimism, earnestness, seriousness, bitterness, humorous, and joyful. An author’s tone can be revealed through choice of words and details.

• Mood The climate of  feeling in a literary work. The choice of setting, objects, details, images, and words all contribute towards creating a specific mood. For example, an author may create a mood of mystery around a character or setting but may treat that character or setting in an ironic, serious, or humorous tone

Examples

• Why did the chicken cross the road writings.

Edgar Allan Poe

• Known for his mystery stories.• One of the first short story

writers.• Considered a part of the

Romantic Movement.

The Raven-Things to think about: Page 252• This poem is an example of a narrative poem,

what do you think this means?• This poem uses alliteration, what does this

mean?• What one word does the raven repeat?• In your opinion what is the most haunting

image in the poem?• What is the narrator’s emotional state at the

beginning of the poem? At the end?• What does the last line of the poem imply?

Things to think about from The Simpsons

• What is the tone/mood of the clip?• How does this differ from the

poem?• Do you agree with Lisa that it is a

creepy poem, or with Bart that it is boring?

Homework

• R-Role• A-Audience• F-Format• T-Topic

Example: R- ant, A- young boy, F- verbal plea, T- convincing the boy not to step on you.

Homework assignment

• Role-The Raven• Audience-The man in the poem,

Homer’s character in the clip.• Format-Poem, follow Poe’s

example. (At least 6 lines)• Topic-Were you real or in the

man’s mind.