1. Tone Activity, Subjects Practice, and Thesis introduction
Day 17
Tone Activity, Subjects Practice, and Thesis introduction

2. Agenda Warm Up Vocabulary Tone Activity SINUP Thesis statement Closure
Individual
Group
SINUP
Thesis statement
Closure

3. Objectives Identify tone as it is used in a nonfiction text.
Evaluate the use of tone through diction.
Discuss and develop a thesis statement for the research paper.
Homework:
VCR 3C due Friday
Submit simple and elevated thesis Thursday night to turnitin.com

4. Warm Up
Copy and label subjects, verbs, and Prep phrases 1. Where is that book about the history of the American flag? 2. Sally, Please let me see the drawing. 3. Here are photos of several different flag designs.

5. Hard-to-Find Subjects
First find prepositional phrases.
Direction
Location
Extra Information
Prepositions
Linking (state of being)
Action (Mental or Physical)
Helping (always first in the verb phrase)
Verbs
Who or what is doing the action or being linked to a description.
Ask “Who/What + verb phrase?”
Subject

6. Get into your Pairs
Take a copy of the worksheet and get into your pairs. Highlight the prepositional phrases in each sentence. Underline the verb phrases. Identify as AV or LV. Box [ ] the simple subject of each sentence.

8. The Research Paper

9. Social Justice Research Paper
During your research process, you should be thinking about what you want your thesis statement to say.
That is the point of researching, after all.
You need to learn about your topic so that you can then inform your reader about it.

10. A thesis statement states the overall main idea
A thesis statement states the overall main idea. In an essay, it's good to make the thesis statement the last sentence of the first paragraph
--i. e. the first paragraph is the introduction, with the first few sentences catching the reader's attention and leading up to the thesis.

11. Remember, the first point of your thesis will identify the social justice issue, so as you read articles about your topic, consider how the facts you are learning could become thesis points.
You will do the same as you research the person, group, or organization currently working to address the issue.

12. Example of a Simple Thesis
The following sample thesis statements illustrate how this process might evolve.
Example of a Simple Thesis
____________________________ is a social injustice, and ______________________ works to address this issue.
The lack of clean drinking water is a social injustice, and WaterAid works to address this issue.
*Complete your simple thesis statement now.

13. Example of an Elevated Thesis
The lack of clean drinking water is a social injustice because _____________________________, and WaterAid works to address this issue by _______________________________.
The lack of clean drinking water is a social injustice because it gravely impacts the health of individuals who drink contaminated water, and WaterAid works to address this issue by building wells in areas where clean water is not available.
Your elevated thesis is due on Monday

14. Once you have a thesis formulated, the next task is to organize and use the information you found during the research process to support your thesis points.

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16. 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.

17. Group practice
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?

18. 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?

19. 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?

20. 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?