ELAGSE9-10RL4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone.)
ELAGSE9-10RL2: Determine a theme and/or central idea of text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text
Essential Questions:
How does tone impact a text? How do literary elements such as tone, theme, and characterization interact?
Warm Up:
Grades/ end of quarter discussion
Work Session
Twenty Years Gone and Back Again
Closing
Discuss Reading