Mood and Tone

Mood is...

• How the characters are doing in a book.

• The emotional feeling a reader gets after reading a piece of text.

• How the writer feels about a piece of work.

• How much money the author makes on a book.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

Tone is...

• The way the reader feels after reading a piece of text.

• How the book smells.

• The main conflict in a story.

• The way the author feels about the subject or topic they are writing about.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

How are tone and mood related?

• They are not related.

• Mood is all the words the author writes and it makes us feel stuff and then the reader sets a tone.

• Tone creates the mood the reader is feeling through the author's word choice.

• Mood creates the tone through how the reader is feeling.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

You can identify the mood and tone of a picture, true or false?

• True

• False

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CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

What do you use to identify the tone of a piece of literature?

• I think about how I feel when I look at something or read something.

• I make something up.

• I look at the actions of the characters.

• I look at the author's word choice and think about why they picked those words.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

What do you use to identify the tone of a picture?

• I look at the colors used in the picture.

• I look at the details, such as the different things included in the picture

• I look at the characters in the picture and what they are doing.

• I can look at all of those things to identify the tone.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

Spring

by H. G. Adams

A bursting into greenness; A waking as from sleep; A twitter and a warble That make the pulses leap: A watching, as in childhood, For the flowers that, one by one, Open their golden petals To woo the fitful sun. A gust, a flash, a gurgle, A wish to shout and sing, As, filled with hope and gladness, We hail the vernal Spring.

QUESTION: WHAT IS THE MOOD OF THIS PASSAGE?

• Angry (Denotation: Upset and mad)

• Bright (Denotation: Upbeat and positive)

• Dark (Denotation: Depressing and grim)

• Goofy (Denotation: Silly and playful)

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

The Scarecrow

by Annie Stone

 Full Text

Here is the scarecrow, see him stand Upon the newly planted land; A figure rugged and forlorn, A silent watcher of the corn.

His dangling legs, his arms spread wide, A lone man of the countryside; Uncouth, the butt of pen and tongue, Unheralded, unsought, unsung

QUESTION: WHAT IS THE TONE OF THIS POEM?

• Lonely

  (Denotation: deserted and solitary)

• Positive (Denotation: upbeat and feeling good about the future)

• Grim

  (Denotation: dark, depressing and maybe something bad will happen)

• Happy

  (Denotation: Feeling good and merry about what is happening)

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

Spring

by H. G. Adams

A bursting into greenness; A waking as from sleep; A twitter and a warble That make the pulses leap: A watching, as in childhood, For the flowers that, one by one, Open their golden petals To woo the fitful sun. A gust, a flash, a gurgle, A wish to shout and sing, As, filled with hope and gladness, We hail the vernal Spring.

QUESTION: HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE MOOD OF THIS TEXT IS?

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

The Scarecrow

by Annie Stone

 Full Text

Here is the scarecrow, see him stand Upon the newly planted land; A figure rugged and forlorn, A silent watcher of the corn.

His dangling legs, his arms spread wide, A lone man of the countryside; Uncouth, the butt of pen and tongue, Unheralded, unsought, unsung

QUESTION: HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE TONE OF THIS TEXT IS?

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5