Day 16 Tone Activity, Subjects Practice, close reading week 2 groups, and source evaluations.

Agenda Warm Up Source evaluation checklist Week 2 Close Reading Groups Tone Activity Individual Group Vocabulary Closure

Objectives Identify tone as it is used in a nonfiction text. Evaluate the use of tone through diction. Homework: VCR 3A and 3B due Friday Submit simple and elevated thesis Thursday night to turnitin.com

Warm Up Don’t feed the animals in that cage! Carol, please give me your homework. The warm breezes were a sign of spring.

Source Evaluation Checklist Get in your pairs and take everything off of your desks. Take out your 4 sources and the printed checklists. Swap your sources and checklists with your partner. Make sure you write “Checked by __________” Go through and answer each of the questions concerning the source. If you have a “no” answer, justify it in the space provided. You have 10 minutes.

Group Practice – Close Reading Week 2 Get into groups of 4. Assign one member of the group to get your reading packets from me. Use your answer sheets to discuss the answers. ->Use your rationale in your discussions. You must have one written. When you establish a group answer, write it in the group answer portion of the answer sheet. You have 20 min. to complete.

How to Make a Sandwich Get into your four person groups and spread out. You don’t want to be anywhere near the other groups. You will need 1 piece of paper. I will hand an index card to each group.

Guessing Time Send one member per group to grab the white boards and a dry-erase marker. Each group will present their 10-step guide. While a group is presenting, the other groups must draw their sandwich as it is described. When finished drawing, write the emotion used in the 10 step guide below your masterpiece.

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 cacaphonous. House home, hut, shack, mansion, cabin, chalet, abode, dwelling, shanty, residence, crib Fat obese, plump, corpulent, portly, roly-poly, stout, rotund, burly, full-figured, heavy set, fleshy, over-weight, bulky, 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 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?