Mood, Tone, Voice

Reading Focus: Tone, Voice, & Mood in Plays

from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow dramatized by Kathryn Schultz Miller

Learning Target

​SWBAT analyze how authors use specific language to create mood and tone.

How do authors choose their words to create an emotional response in the reader?

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​Essential Question

But first...​

When you are telling a story to different people, do you use the same words?

Why or why not?

Now this...​

Looking back...

Looking back...

• Mood is how you feel while you're reading because of the setting, characters, sounds, and events in the story.

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​-BUT-

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• ​Tone is the attitude or the way the narrator or a character speaks.

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​-BOTH-

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• ​Depend on the language (diction = word choice) the author uses in the thoughts, dialogue, and descriptions throughout the story.

Looking forward...

​Video Task - Answer the following questions on your video task cards (DUE @ EOC).

• ​How are tone and mood different?

• ​How are tone and mood the same?

• ​What is revealed by the tone?

• ​What is revealed by the mood?

Open Ended

According to the speaker in the video, what does tone reveal and what does mood reveal?

The speaker states that...

Let me show you...

​How does the playwright use specific words (diction) to show what the storytellers believe (TONE) about the people of Tarry Town?

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Let's Chat about it...

Open Ended

Using RACE: In lines 36-46, How does the playwright use specific words (diction) to change the tone when the characters talk about the new teacher?

The playwright uses the word(s)...to show that...

​Let's share out some amazing ideas!

​RANDOM CALLOUT TIME!

What questions do you still have about how authors use diction to create tone and mood?

​On your own...

​Re-read lines 47-67. Make note of how the tone changes and how the mood shifts. Look at the setting, diction, and characters.

​WHILE YOU READ...

AFTER YOU READ...

Answer the questions on the next two slides.

Multiple Choice

The playwright uses the stage directions to shift the mood by--

• having spooky music, storm sounds, and darkness

• having Ichabod Crane enter the city

• having Ichabod shine his shoes in front of the villagers

• having Washington hand Ichabod a jacket

Multiple Choice

Which sentence best represents the storytellers' attitudes toward Mr. Crane?

• CHARLOTTE: The new schoolmaster’s name was Ichabod Crane.

• WASHINGTON: Large, green, glassy eyes.

• JUDITH: You might have mistook him for a scarecrow who escaped from a cornfield.

• PETER: To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day . . .

​Thank you!