Day 17 – Hard to Find Subjects, Tone, “How to Eat a Guava”

Agenda Warm Up Tone Notes Tone Practice How to Eat a Guava Hard to find subjects practice Closure

Objectives: Homework: Identify and understand tone as it is used in a nonfiction text. Demonstrate a conceptual understanding of tone. Identify hard to find subjects in sentences. Homework: Close Reading Week 3 Due Friday Reading comprehension quiz on Friday

Warm Up 1. The football player changed his clothes and took a shower. 2. The speaker read his speech and answered some questions. 3. The carpenter fixed the door and painted the house.

Literature Notes: Tones

Types of Tone The tone of a piece of literature may vary but common tones are: Formal 7. Cheerful Informal 8. Or any other attitude Serious Comic Sarcastic Sad

Tone cont. The tone of a piece of work can determine its true nature the true feelings of the author with respect to the message. If the tone is sarcastic, the author is wishing to convey the absurdity of a situation/message. Ex: Upon hearing his [Dan] car was stolen. Carl: “How has your day gone?” Dan: “It has been great!”

Diction- Word Choice Controls Tone * Words have negative, positive, or neutral effects. * Words can be colloquial, informal, formal, or old fashioned. * Words have denotative and connotative meaning. Words are euphonious or cacophonous. House home, hut, shack, mansion, cabin, chalet, abode, dwelling, shanty, crib Fat obese, plump, corpulent, roly-poly, stout, rotund, burly, full-figured, heavy set, fleshy, over-weight, pudgy, fluffy Unmarried Woman spinster, old maid, bachelorette, maiden lady, career woman, widow, divorcee

Tone sheet Take a tone sheet that will contain a list of tone words. Use these in your analysis of literature to glean the attitude of the author. Keep this in your notebook.

Establishing Tone Through Diction and Imagery Passage fromEdgar A. Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country. At length I found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher...I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled luster by the dwelling...[with] vacant and eye-like windows. What words and images contribute to the narrator's attitude about the House of Usher? What word would describe the tone of this passage?

Think – Pair- Share As a class, Read “A Loud Sneer For Our Feathered Friends.” How does the author establish the negative attitude the campers have toward Camp Hi- Wah? What words does the author use to convey the negative attitude? How would you change this message to convey an attitude of love toward the camp?

Establishing Tone Through Use of Details Passage from Ruth McKenney's "A Loud Sneer For Our Feathered Friends" We refused to get out of the bed when the bugle blew in the morning, we fought against scrubbing our teeth in public to music, we sneered when the flag was ceremoniously lowered at sunset, we avoided doing a good deed a day, we complained loudly about the food...and we bought some chalk and wrote all over the Recreation Cabin "We hate Camp Hi-Wah." How does the author establish the negative attitude the campers have toward Camp Hi-Wah? Does sentence structure also contribute to the tone?

Establishing Tone Through Sentence Structure Passage from James Ramsey Ullman's Kilimanjaro It has been called the House of God. It has been called the High One. The Cold One. The White One. On close acquaintance by climbers, it has been called a variety of names rather less printable. But to the world at large it is Kilimanjaro, the apex of Africa and one of the great mountains on the earth. What is the author's attitude toward Kilimanjaro? How does the sentence structure help establish this tone?

Independent Practice: “How to Eat a Guava”

Hard to Find Subjects

Hard to Find Subjects Get into your pairs and have your notes out. Whatever you don’t complete is homework. Ask your partner if you have a question about the assignment. Only ask me as a last resort.

Closure 3, 2, 1 Write: 3 things you have learned about tone today. 2 examples of hard-to-find subjects. 1 question you still have regarding today’s lesson.