1. Discuss figurative language with your partner
Call it Courage – chapter 2
Discuss figurative language with your partner

2. WHAT IS MOOD? Copy in your composition book…
Mood is the general atmosphere created by the author’s words.
It is the feeling the reader gets from reading those words.
It may be the same, or it may change from situation to situation.
Copy in your composition book…

3. Words That Describe Mood
Fanciful Melancholy Frightening Mysterious Frustrating Romantic Gloomy Sentimental Happy Sorrowful Joyful Suspenseful

4. Use these words as a starting point!

5. Words That Describe Mood
Copy t- chart below mood definition
What’s the mood?
“ _________”
“ ________”
Watch closely 2x and write example of mood

6. In your own words, what did you learn from the trailers?
Watching film evokes certain emotions and feelings from the viewer with the images, music, dialogue, etc. In the same way, writing evokes responses from the reader with the choice of words and writing style.
The tone and mood of your writing is determined by the words you use, and your writing style.
In your own words, what did you learn from the trailers?

7. What is the Mood?
In the next six slides, try to guess the mood that the image creates.

8. MOOD/Frightening

9. MOOD/Fun

10. MOOD/Happy

11. MOOD/Frustrated

12. MOOD/ROMANTIC

13. MOOD/Melancholy

14. Tone and Mood Copy in the composition book on a new page…
Watch out! Tone and mood are similar!
Tone is the author’s attitude toward the writing (his characters, the situation) and the readers.
A work of writing can have more than one tone.
An example of tone could be both serious and humorous.
Tone is set by the setting, choice of vocabulary and other details.
Copy in the composition book on a new page…

15. Copy t- chart below mood definition
What is the TONE?
Watch the video clip.
Choose 3 words to describe the tone and write on the left side of the t-chart.
Copy t- chart below mood definition
What’s the mood?
“ _________”
“ ________”

16. Watch it Again!
Now watch the same video images that are edited and with different music. Has the tone changed? Explain how on the right side of the t-chart.

17. Video Clip: Tone and Mood Words

18. Words That Describe Tone
Amused Humorous Pessimistic Angry Informal Playful Cheerful Ironic Pompous Horror Light Sad Clear Matter-of-fact Serious Formal Resigned Suspicious Gloomy Optimistic Witty
Glue your paste –it in your composition book on the next page!

19. Tone? Mood?
Bouncing through the door, Alara lit up the room with a joyous glow on her face as she told her parents of her exam scores.

20. Bouncing through the door, Alara lit up the room with a joyous glow on her face as she told her parents of her exam scores.

21. Tone? Mood?
She huddled in the corner, clutching her tattered blanket and shaking convulsively, as she feverishly searched the room for the unknown dangers that awaited her.

22. She huddled in the corner, clutching her tattered blanket and shaking convulsively, as she feverishly searched the room for the unknown dangers that awaited her.

23. Tone? Mood?
Bursting through the door, the flustered mother screamed uncontrollably at the innocent teacher who gave her child an F.

24. Bursting through the door, the flustered mother screamed uncontrollably at the innocent teacher who gave her child an F.

25. Tone? Mood?
He cautiously glanced back as he heard his relentless pursuers, then hurriedly walked on, jumping at the slightest sound of a leaf crackling under his own foot.

26. He cautiously glanced back as he heard his relentless pursuers, then hurriedly walked on, jumping at the slightest sound of a leaf crackling under his own foot.

27. Gently smiling, the mother tenderly tucked the covers up around the child’s neck, and carefully, quietly, left the room making sure to leave a comforting ray of light shining through the opened door should the child wake.

28. Gently smiling, the mother tenderly tucked the covers up around the child’s neck, and carefully, quietly, left the room making sure to leave a comforting ray of light shining through the opened door should the child wake.

29. Tone? Mood?
The laughing wind skipped through the village, teasing trees until they danced with anger and cajoling the grass into fighting itself, blade slapping blade, as the silly dog with golfball eyes and flopping, slobbery tongue bounded across the lawn.

30. The laughing wind skipped through the village, teasing trees until they danced with anger and cajoling the grass into fighting itself, blade slapping blade, as the silly dog with golfball eyes and flopping, slobbery tongue bounded across the lawn.

31. The Crocodile’s Toothache
Read the poem one time. Watch the video. Highlight the tone words in the poem and explain the tone in the margin.

32. What tone is conveyed about the same shabby apartment?1. 2.
This place may be shabby, but since both of my children were born while we lived here,
it has a special place in my heart.
sentimental
Tone 3. 4.

33. What tone is conveyed about the same shabby apartment?1. 2.
This place may be shabby, but since both of my children were born while we lived here,
it has a special place in my heart.
This isn’t the greatest apartment in the world, but it’s not really that bad.
tolerant
sentimental
Tone 3. 4.

34. What tone is conveyed about the same shabby apartment?1. 2.
This place may be shabby, but since both of my children were born while we lived here,
it has a special place in my heart.
This isn’t the greatest apartment in the world, but it’s not really that bad.
tolerant
sentimental
Tone
Bitter 3. 4.

35. Tone 1. 2. 3. 4. Tolerant Optimistic Bitter
What tone is conveyed about the same shabby apartment? 1. 2.
This place may be shabby, but since both of my children were born while we lived here,
it has a special place in my heart.
This isn’t the greatest apartment in the world, but it’s not really that bad.
Tolerant
Sentimental
Tone
Optimistic
Bitter 3. 4.

36. Tone 1. 2. 3. 4. Humorous Depressed Joyous Serious
Describe the shabby apartment with these tone words… 1. 2.
Humorous
Depressed
Tone 3. 4.
Joyous
Serious

37. Mood 1. 2. 3. 4. Discovering Mood with Music…
Listen to the music and draw the mood using colors to express your thinking! 2.
Mood 3. 4.

38. Discovering Mood with Music…1. 2.
Mood 3. 4.

39. Mood 1. 2. 3. 4. Discovering Mood with Music… Mysterious Happy
foreboding
suspenseful 3. 4.

40. Click on the picture and watch the short video… be ready to specifically describe the mood with evidence!

41. Theme
The Search for Meaning

42. What is a Theme?
Theme: Life lesson, meaning, moral, or message about life or human nature that is communicated by a literary work. In other words… Theme is what the story teaches readers.

43. Themes
A theme is not a word, it is a sentence. You don’t have to agree with the theme to identify it. Examples Money can’t buy happiness. Don’t judge people based on the surface. It is better to die free than live under tyranny.

44. What is the theme?
Jenny Puchovier was so excited. She had a pack of Starburst in her lunch and she had been looking forward to eating them all morning. Lunch finally came and Jenny sat down to eat her Starbursts when her friend Judy sat next to her. “Let me get the pink ones,” asked Judy. Jenny liked the pink ones best, but she thought Judy was funny and Jenny wanted Judy to like her, so Jenny gave Judy all of her pink Starbursts. Before Jenny was done giving Judy the pink ones, Carrie sat on the other side of Jenny. “Let me get the red and the orange ones, Jenny. Remember when I gave you that Snickers?” Jenny didn’t remember that, though she did remember when Carrie ate a whole Snickers in front of her, but Jenny thought Carrie was cool, so she gave her the red and the orange Starbursts. Now that she only had the yellow ones, Jenny wasn’t so excited about eating starbursts anymore.

45. Identifying Themes
Themes are not explicit (clearly stated). Themes are implied. Themes are bigger than the story.
Big World of the Theme.
Applies to the “Real” World.
Small
World
of the
Story

46. Themes are about the big picture.
Not “Yellow Starbursts taste bad” Not “Judy and Carrie are bad friends.” Think BIGGER. Find “Real” World advice.
Big World of the Theme.
Applies to the “Real” World.
Small
World
of the
Story

47. People who are selfish are not your friends!
What is the theme?
Jenny Puchovier was so excited. She had a pack of Starburst in her lunch and she had been looking forward to eating them all morning. Lunch finally came and Jenny sat down to eat her Starbursts when her friend Judy sat next to her. “Let me get the pink ones,” asked Judy. Jenny liked the pink ones best, but she thought Judy was funny and Jenny wanted Judy to like her, so Jenny gave Judy all of her pink Starbursts. Before Jenny was done giving Judy the pink ones, Carrie sat on the other side of Jenny. “Let me get the red and the orange ones, Jenny. Remember when I gave you that Snickers?” Jenny didn’t remember that, though she did remember when Carrie ate a whole Snickers in front of her, but Jenny thought Carrie was cool, so she gave her the red and the orange Starbursts. Now that she only had the yellow ones, Jenny wasn’t so excited about eating starbursts anymore.
People who are selfish are not your friends!

48. Review Theme is what we can learn from a story.
Themes must be inferred.
Themes are about the BIG world.

49. Practice We’ll read each story. Write what you think the theme is.
Write another sentence explaining what happens in the story that leads you to believe this.
How does the small world of the story connect to the big world theme?

50. Once there was a mean little boy who lived in a small village
Once there was a mean little boy who lived in a small village. This mean little boy loved to mess with people, so one day he ran up to a sheep herder and shouted, “WOLF! WOLF! A wolf is attacking the town!” The sheep herder grabbed his staff and ran to defend the town, but realized he had been fooled when the boy started pointing and laughing at him. “Ha ha! I made you jump,” said the boy. Then the boy ran up to a farmer and shouted, “WOLF! WOLF! A wolf is attacking the town!” The farmer grabbed his pitchfork and ran to defend the town, but when the boy started pointing and laughing at him, he realized he had been tricked. As the boy went back to his family’s farm laughing about the funny trick he played, he saw a real wolf in his father’s chicken coop. As the wolf ate all of his father’s chickens, the boy screamed over and over again, “WOLF! WOLF! Please help us!” But nobody came to help him.

51. Angie loved to draw. She made colorful designs of people’s names with bright hearts & flowers, but she lost own markers, so she borrowed her teacher’s. The school day was ending, but Angie wanted to keep coloring, so she took the teacher’s markers home and lost them in her messy room. She came back to school the next day and wanted to color again, so she asked the teacher for more markers. The teacher replied, “Sure, Angie, but this is my last pack.” Angie said she would be careful, but by the end of the day the markers were scattered all over the floor and the custodian swept them up and disposed of them. When Angie came in the next day, she asked the teacher for more markers, but she was disappointed to find that there weren’t any more. “I don’t know where all of my markers went,” said the teacher, “but I don’t have them.” Angie had to draw her pictures with drab pencils.

52. Jenny hated reading class
Jenny hated reading class. She didn’t understand point of view or figurative language, and not knowing how to do the work frustrated her. She asked the teacher for help, but he spoke so fast and used such big words that she still couldn’t understand. The teacher asked if she understood, and she nodded her head, but she didn’t. Jenny’s friend Katie knew that Jenny was having trouble, and, rather than just giving Jenny all of the answers, Katie explained to Jenny how to solve the problems. Katie spoke clearly and at Jenny’s level, and Jenny was happy that she finally learned how to do the work. Later in the week, Katie was having trouble in math class. She didn’t understand coordinates and was really frustrated. Seeing that Katie was having problems, Jenny, who understood math very well, taught Katie coordinates. Both girls made honor roll that quarter.

53. Call it Courage – Chapter 2
Find your worksheet about figurative language and discuss with a partner your findings.
Do you agree?
Why?
Why not?

54. Study for the states quiz…next Tuesday!

55. Peer Edit: “Witness to Tragedy”
Circle all the personal pronouns. If they do not have at least 10 or more, there are not enough. Write a note in the margin about your thoughts.
Look specifically at paragraph #4. Is there at least 3 examples of figurative/sensory language? Write a note in the margin about ways your partner can improve their essay.