1. Mood, Tone, and Style .

2. Journal Writing:
In at least 3-4 complete sentences, answer the following question:
Journal about a time someone upset you. How did it make you feel? Did you ever say anything to the person who hurt you?
Write until the music stops!

3. Video examples of mood, tone, and style:
“The Power of Tone and Words” While viewing: 3, 2, 1 Give 3 things you learned, 2 important details from the video, and 1 question you still have.

4. Guided Notes
Tone is the _attitude__ a writer takes towards their topic.
Mood is the _feelings__of a piece of writing, which includes the _emotions_ a selection arouses in a reader.
Tone is discovered by looking at the
_descriptive words___ a writer chooses.
Tone words can be categorized as ___positive_____, __negative___, and ___neutral____.

5. Steps for recognizing Tone & Mood:
1) Read and Identify the Modifiers—
Tone is indicated by the words an author chooses (DICTION) to use to add detail to a passage. Adjectives, adverbs, and specific verbs carry implications that help to indicate tone and add to the mood that the author is trying to create.

6. STEPS CONTINUED…
2) Evaluate the word choice: is the diction positive (+), negative (-), or neutral?
3) Determine the emotion the passage is creating.
Tone answers the question “In the text, the author is ____________”
Mood answers the question “When reading the text, I feel _______________”

7. Passage 1:
On Eager Street, the streetlamps shone ominously in the puddles that swirled in the gutters. Cameras with blue flashing lights hung their necks out like giant buzzards, searching for prey. Shards of broken glass gleamed like shattered teeth in the road. The sidewalk was deserted, but the scratch and scurry of rat claws could be heard in garbage cans in the dark alley, a reminder that tonight, things in Baltimore were being hunted.

8. Passage Practice:
1) In passage one, when talking the about Baltimore, the writer is _________________ (Tone).
In passage one, when reading about Baltimore, I feel ________________ (Mood).

9. Passage 2
On Eager Street, the sun shines with glee on the neat brownstones. Although the houses here are straight and tall—unlike the rolling, wavelike row homes famous elsewhere in Baltimore—bright marble stoops still drop invitingly from doorsteps, and lush green trees line the friendly street. Small children can be seen playing hopscotch in their cool shade, while their parents sit in lawn chairs, chatting happily.

10. Passage 2:
2) In passage two, when talking the about Baltimore, the writer is _________________ (Tone).
In passage two, when reading about Baltimore, I feel ________________ (Mood).

11. Mood and Tone Practice
Watch the video clips, refer to your “Mood and Tone” word list, and find a mood and tone that fits each video. Then, in at least two sentences explain what elements from the video clip provided logical and justifiable means for leading you to know what you chose is the mood and tone intended by the author?

12. Ticket Out:
 1. Tone determines how the ___________________ feels about the subject.
a) reader
b) characters
c) author
d) audience
2.Mood is the ____________________ of a text.
a) weather
b) setting
c) climax
d) atmosphere