1. Do Now 9/26/14 Take out HW: Quick Write 6 Open Spiral notebooks and write today’s date for notes about tone

2. Agenda 9/26/14 1.Do Now & Agenda 2.Learning Targets 3.Notes on tone, connotation, & denotation 4.Tone Practice 5.Ticket out 6.HW - begin to review vocab and notes on tone for Quiz next Wednesday, upcoming test 10/7

3. Learning Targets 1.I can participate in discussions with a small group, partner, and the whole class. 2.I can identify how tone and meaning affects the author’s meaning of a passage.

4. Notes What is tone? Tone is the writer's/speaker’s attitude (emotion) toward his/her subject. Why does it matter? Tone helps to establish the mood, and mood is what makes us engage in the text or song or movie or TV show… Common Tones: formal, informal, serious, comical, sarcastic, sad, and cheerful

5. Understanding Tone Tone is deciphered through: – 1. Figurative Language: a tool that an author uses to help a reader visualize what is happening in his or her literary work – 2. Diction: an author’s choice of words. [WORD CHOICE] – 3. Denotative/Connotative Language: Denotation is the literal meaning of a word. Connotation involves a cultural or emotional feeling associated with a word.

6. Denotation & Connotation Denotative meaning: A red octagon Connotative meaning: A sign that indicates potential danger ahead.

7. Example: “snake” Snake: any of numerous scaly, legless, sometimes venomous reptiles having a long, tapering, cylindrical body. Snake: Something evil or untrustworthy. Perhaps an omen of bad things to come.

8. Take out Binder p. 13 Take 2 minutes to skim and scan through the test. What words are you unfamiliar with? Lets annotate some synonyms…

9. Partner Talk 1.Choose a tone from the tone list. 2.Turn to a partner and say this sentence with that tone in your voice: “I am an eighth grader at South Buffalo Charter School.” 3. Try a few others…who can share with the class?

10. Emphasis and Tone Read each sentence, but emphasize the word in red. Ask yourself: what can you infer from each sentence? 1.I didn’t steal your red hat. 2.I didn’t steal your red hat. 3.I didn’t steal your red hat. 4.I didn’t steal your red hat. How does emphasis add to tone?

11. Whole Group Practice: What is the tone of each of these excerpts? 1.The devils were eight or nine feet tall, with wild and tangled hair. Their horrific bodies were blackish and hairless, and their eyes as round as monkey’s eyes and as fierce as the bluest point of a flame. 2.The angels were elegant and soaring, with tresses that sparkled and floated in the sunlight. Their graceful figures were ethereal and their eyes as gentle as the kiss of Spring. 3.Father: “We can’t go on vacation this summer.” Son: “Ok. Great! That’s what I expected.” 4.“And the trees all died. They were orange trees. I don’t know why they died, they just died. Something wrong with the soil possibly or maybe the stuff we got from the nursery wasn’t the best. We complained about it. So we’ve got thirty kids there, each kid had his or her own little tree to plant and we’ve got these thirty dead trees. All these kids looking at these little brown sticks, it was depressing.”

12. Ticket Out 1.Mr. Jones, since you obviously appear to know everything, would you like to come up here and teach this class for me? A.sarcastic B.Critical/ pointing out errors C.disrespectful 2.Did you see what he just did? My goodness! A.Insecure/uncertain B.humorous C.surprised 3.This is one of the best essays I've ever seen. It's clear, concise, and convincing. A.complimentary B.sad C.hopeful