1. Drama: Tone & Mood

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Discuss Hitchhiker  Tone and Mood
Create Poem

3. Scary Mary
Trailer to “Scary Mary”

4. Tone & Mood
What’s your favorite song? What kind of mood does it put you in? Is there are distinctive beat? Rhythm?
Tone refers to the author’s attitude toward the text (ie: how things are said).
Mood refers to the atmosphere of the text, or to the way that a text makes a reader feel (ie: how it makes you feel).

5. Common Tone Words Admiring Impassioned Angry Indifferent Cautionary
In pairs, you will be very briefly (in 5 seconds) act out your assigned tone word. You will have 5 minutes to figure out what your word means, put it in your own words and figure out how to act it out.
Admiring
Impassioned
Angry
Indifferent
Cautionary
Informative
Celebratory
Optimistic
Conversational
Pessimistic
Discouraged
Playful
Impartial
Threatening

6. Identifying Tone What is the tone of “Scary Mary?”
Original : Mary Poppins
What is the tone of “Shining?”
Original : Shining
What is the tone of “Stephen King’s IT?”
Original : IT
What is the tone of “Lurk and Lurker?”
Original : Dumb and Dumber
Stem:
“The tone of _____ is _____ because _______.”

7. Read “The Hitchhiker”
Read “The Hitchhiker” aloud.

8. Exit Ticket: Tone & Mood
The Hitchhiker is on pg. 814 of the blue book.
Briefly summarize The Hitchhiker (5-8 sentences). What do you think happened?
Write a paragraph describing the tone and mood of the play.
Identify 2 dramatic conventions that were used in the play? Explain how they were used? How did they help enhance the play?`

9. Stems: The tone of The Hitchhiker is ________ because ____________.
A great example of this can be seen when the author writes, “_________.”
The mood of The Hitchhiker is _____________ because ____________.