Analyzing How Authors Craft Creates

Mood
Unit goal:
Standards: W 2, R 5

The purpose of this unit is to teach students how to analyze how authors structural
choices (sequence of events, details. word choice or time ) creates mood or builds
mystery, tension or surprise. I will know students understand when they can analyze
mood through writing, drawing, and speaking.
Skill

Evidence

Students are able to analyze

the mood of literary works in
a written analysis that builds
on drawings and discussions
from class.

Students can analyze the

mood of literary texts by
talking about how authors
sequence events or story
elements; and students can
support their analysis with
evidence from the text(s).
Students can identify how
the author orders events
details or time in literary
texts.

Students can present their analysis to the class.

Students include specific details (textual
evidence) to support their analysis of the text.
Students create nonlinguistic representations of
story elements (draw the settings, etc.)
Students can make central claim about how the
author organizes the text in order to develop an
idea or achieve a purpose.
Students annotate text or make notes about
authors choices.

Students can read literary

texts, identify elements of

Students use parenthetical citations and Works

Cited entries to document source material.
Students can effectively embed and interpret
textual evidence to support and develop
claims.
Students write blended compare and contrast
paragraphs when writing to explain similarities
or differences.
Students can write a central claim and
supporting claims about a work and support
said claims with thorough interpretation of
textual evidence.

Students identify how authors sequence events

or details in literary text.
Students can discuss how time, location, mood
or purpose is affected by authors arrangement
of events, details or time.
Students describe the difference between mood
and tone.
Students can identify flashback(s) in fiction.
Students can define mood.
Students can annotate text purposefully.
Students can identify literary elements in

literature and analyze

theme.
Entr Students can read literary
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texts and discuss theme.
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stories, poems or plays.

Students can describe how theme and main

idea differ.