Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Grade: 6
Standards:
Literature, Craft and Structure: Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including
determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word
choices shape meaning or tone.
Writing, Text Types and Purposes: Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of
substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
Objectives: Determine the tone and mood of poetry through analyzation of word choice and
write an opinion piece on the tone and mood.
Materials: smart board, Mood & Tone PowerPoint presentation, copies of “Lost Generation,”
“Noon,” and “Heat” worksheets and Mood & Tone Wordlist
Essential Question: How does word choice help us analyze tone and mood? What evidence can
we use to describe a poem’s tone and mood?
Personal Objective:
I can analyze the author’s word choice to determine a poem’s tone and mood.
I can clearly state my claim on my analysis of a poem’s tone and mood using valid reasoning and
relevant evidence.
Vocabulary: tone, mood, infer
Noon
By Kendall Banning
Author’s Word Choice
The bees are humming, humming in the clover;
The bobolink is singing in the rye;
The brook is purling, purling in the valley,
And the river’s laughing, radiant, to the sky!
1. bobolink: a songbird.
2. purling: when a stream flows with a murmuring sound.
3. aureole: a golden circle of light, usually around the head of a god
or a saint.
Heat
By Hilda Doolittle 1. rend: to tear or rip apart
2. tatters: ragged clothing, fabric, or paper
O wind, rend open the heat,
Cut apart the heat,
Rend it to tatters.
Author’s Word Choice
Fruit cannot drop
Through this thick air –
Fruit cannot fall into heat
That presses up and blunts
The points of pears
And rounds the grapes.
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writing makes a reader feel.
Tone: the author’s
attitude towards a subject.
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(+) Positive (-) Negative Humorous Sorrowful Neutral
Amiable Accusing Amused Anxious Allusive
Amused Aggravated Audacious Apologetic Apathetic
Appreciative Angry Bantering Apprehensive Baffled
Authoritative Apathetic Bold Concerned Callous
Brave Arrogant Caustic Confused Candid
Calm Bitter Comical Dejected Ceremonial
Cheerful Boring Droll Depressing Contemplative
Compassionate Childish Funny Despairing Detached
Confident Cold Giddy Disturbed Disbelieving
Consoling Condescending Goofy Embarrassed Factual
Encouraging Critical Humorous Fearful Formal
Energetic Desperate Insolent Gloomy Humble
Exciting Disappointed Irreverent Grave Informative
Friendly Disgusted Ironic Hopeless Inquisitive
Hopeful Disinterested Joking Horrific Instructive
Lighthearted Furious Mocking Melancholy Judgmental
Loving Harsh Patronizing Miserable Matter-of-fact
Optimistic Hateful Pompous Mournful Nostalgic
Passionate Hurtful Quizzical Nervous Objective
Peaceful Insulting Ridiculing Numb Patriotic
Playful Irritated Sarcastic Ominous Persuasive
Proud Manipulative Satirical Paranoid Pleading
Relaxed Obnoxious Sharp Pitiful Questioning
Romantic Outraged Silly Pessimistic Reflective
Surprised Shameful Taunting Regretful Sentimental
Sweet Snooty Teasing Serious Sincere
Sympathetic Threatening Whimsical Somber Unemotional
Vibrant Wrathful Wry Upset Urgent
Ms. Fagan 2016