Word Choice and Tone

Tone and Mood Post Assessment

Our skill for this week has been identifying tone and mood and then analyzing text for word choice and explaining why those word choices give a text a certain tone or mood.

Let's review!

Review!

• Tone: The attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience, from the author’s point-of-view, how the author feels about what they’re writing or to whom they’re writing

• Mood: The general atmosphere created by the author’s words, the feeling the reader gets from reading the words

• Word Choice: Word choice is the specific vocabulary the writer uses to convey meaning, what words a person says or writes to make their tone, mood, and opinion clear

Certain words elicit certain emotions

• Some words make us feel sad

• Some words make us feel happy

• Some words scare us

On Tuesday and Thursday, we identified which words gave pieces of writing certain tones or moods. Now we have to identify WHY those words suggest certain emotions.

On the next couple of slides, there will be two words with almost the same meaning and you're going to tell me how the two words make you feel different emotions.

Open Ended

Dull and Plain

Open Ended

Baffled and Confused

Open Ended

Destroyed and Broken

Today, we're going to practice using specific word choices in order to convey a certain tone just like the authors of the texts that we've read have done.

Copy and Paste the following link into a new tab:

• https://padlet.com/sensme/bsjaca1f5as1p386

• We will go over the instructions once everyone gets there.

Post Assessment

The following questions will look very similar to the ones you saw at the beginning of the week; answer them to the best of your ability so that I can see what skills we need to continue to work on.

Multiple Choice

Tone can best be described as

• attitude of the reader toward what they are reading about

• the overall mood or feeling in a story

• the author's attitude toward the subject he/she is writing about

• reader's point of view

Multiple Choice

What is the "mood" of a story?

• Emotions audience feels from a given passage.

• The time and place of the story.

• The summary of events of the story.

• The lesson the reader learns from the story.

Multiple Choice

The tone and mood of a text can be very different

• true
• false

Multiple Choice

What word would you use to describe the TONE of this passage?

• Humorous

• Persuasive

• Anxious

• Cheerful

Multiple Choice

What word would you use to describe the MOOD of this passage?

• Cranky

• Excited

• Pleased

• Amused

Multiple Choice

Which TONE is represented in the following passage?

Wow! With a top speed of one hundred fifty miles per hour, that car can almost fly!

• Scary

• Calm

• Excited

• Annoyed

Multiple Choice

What is the MOOD of the following passage?

The alarm buzzed. Jordan smashed her fist down on it--hard. It flew off the nightstand and bounced off her cat, Armstrong. The cat yowled indignantly and rocketed out the room.

• Thankful

• Confused

• Silly

• Cranky

Open Ended

What do you think the difference is between tone and mood?

Poll

How confident are you that you know what tone and mood mean in text?

• Very confident, I know what they mean

• Confident, but I have questions

• Not really sure, but I could guess

• No clue

Open Ended

Exit Ticket: Look back at the paragraph you wrote for the Padlet, identify and explain the word choices you made in order to create the tone you were assigned.