1. *Read the directions – What is it that you are going to have to DO?
FIGURING OUT YOUR FIRST BIG ASSESSMENT
With your group, “unpack” the embedded assessment on the provided handout.
*Read the directions – What is it that you are going to have to DO?
*Read the rubric at your table – What will you need to do/include to do a good job?

2. Imagery, Diction, and mood
Creating an effect for the audience

3. Create this chart in your Reader/writer notebook:

4. IMAGERY Vivid description
Uses five senses - details of touch, taste, smell, sight, and sound

5. DICTION Specific word choice DENOTATION – the word’s actual definition
CONNOTATION – the feeling the word has (can be positive, negative, or neutral)
NUANCE – the subtle difference in word meaning
Example: happy and overjoyed

6. MOOD
The FEELING the READER gets from a certain passage or piece.

7. Mary Poppins #1

9. Mary Poppins #2

11. How do authors create a mood?
IMAGERY + DICTION + DETAILS + OVERALL MESSAGE = MOOD

12. Applying it to literature
Go back and look at the poem “Ithaka”.
Analyze the poem (break it down into parts) to determine the mood
IMAGERY + DICTION + DETAILS + OVERALL MESSAGE
Why/how are those words making the reader feel something?
Why/how are images/descriptions words making the reader feel something?
Why/how are those details making the reader feel something?
Why/how does the overall message/theme make the reader feel something?