September 23, 2014 - mood vs. tone

Homework: Story elements test on Monday, September 29th!

Bring a copy of Stargirl by this Friday!

ObjectiveI can differentiate mood and tone and evaluate their impact on text.

Warm Up:Look up the definitions of the words mood and tone in the red glossary section of your Lit book. Copy these definitions into your notes. Take out your 1st person point of view rewrite of All Summer in a Day. Make sure your name is on it.

Before we get to mood and tone, let's review yesterday's lesson on point of view.

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The voice that tells the story is called the...

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An author's choice of a narrator is the...

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What's the difference?

1st person point of view

3rd person point of view

? ? kinds of narrators in a story

1st person point of view

is a character in the storyuses I, me, my, myself, us, wetells his / her own thoughts and feelingsdoes not know what other characters think or feel

STORY

3rd person point of view

not a character in the story, but rather an outside voiceuses he, she and theycan reveal the thoughts / feelings of one or more characters

STORY

mood and tone both deal with the emotions centered around a piece of writing, however...

mood

the feeling or atmosphere an author creates for a reader.

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tone

the author's attitude toward his / her subject

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Turn in your Literature book to pg. 526

We will read the poems The Morning Walk and There is No Word for Goodbye together.

The Morning Walk There Is No Word for GoodbyeDescriptions

sense of sight

sense of hearing

sense of touch

mood of the poem?

Now let's think about the tone of these poems...

The Morning Walk

There Is No Word for Goodbye

Characters: Parent(s) and childrenSetting: At the dinner table on a weekday nightConflict: Children want to go to play their video games. Parent(s) want them to finish their homework before going.

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Your assignment

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Come up with a script and presentation for the assigned scenario that demonstrates your family's selected tone. Remember, your attitude toward your subject must be demonstrated in your dialogue.

Meet the Sarcastic Family

Kids: Mom /Dad...we want to go play our video games. Parents: Have you finished all of your homework? Kids: No, not all of it. Parents: Well, you need to get it all finished before you can play your games. Kid 1: Oh goody! I can't wait to go upstairs and finish all my homework. That will be sooo exciting! Kid 2: Oh yeah, I can't think of anything I'd rather be doing that's more entertaining than graphing math coordinates and reviewing the parts of the plot diagram! Awesome! Dad to mom: Wow! And aren't we just the luckiest parents in the world to have such wonderful children?

Meet the hopeless family

Meet the comforting family

Meet the furious family

Meet the proud family

Meet the fearful family

Meet the annoyed family

Meet the ecstatic family

Meet the stressed out family