Standards
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
What is tone? Brainstorm this term and all you know about it.
Work Session
Closing
Review tone and discuss application to project
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
What is tone? Brainstorm this term and all you know about it.
Work Session
- Introduction to tone
- Watch trailer & discuss tone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2Jx5__c1lY (whole class)
- View notes, model analysis of tone, and complete small group/ individual tone task
- View the notes and tasks HERE
- Introduce Literary Analysis project -- Podcast or Comic Strip
Closing
Review tone and discuss application to project