1. DARTS: What is Tone? What is Mood? How are Tone and Mood Effective in Writing?

2. WHAT IS MOOD?  Mood is the general atmosphere created by the author’s words.  It is the feeling the reader gets from reading those words.  It may be the same, or it may change from situation to situation.

3. Words That Describe Mood Keep up with these charts for Tone and Mood. We will analyze for tone and mood all year. Having this chart handy will help you!

4. What is the Mood?  In the next six slides, try to guess the mood that the image creates.  Use your mood words chart.  Use your response boards. You will share your answers, so don’t erase!

5. MOOD/Frightening

6. MOOD/Fun

7. MOOD/Happy

8. MOOD/Frustrated

9. MOOD/ROMANTIC

10. MOOD/Melancholy

11. Tone and Mood Watch out! Tone and mood are similar!  Tone is the author’s attitude toward the writing (his characters, the situation) and the readers.  A work of writing can have more than one tone.  An example of tone could be both serious and humorous.  Tone is set by the setting, choice of vocabulary and other details.

12. How can the author’s tone affect the mood?  Watch each of the following clips. For each, fill out the graphic organizer with examples of details contributing to tone and mood.  On your response board, explain how the changes in tone affected the mood for each set of videos.

13. Mary Poppins  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOfH7uE ojKk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOfH7uE ojKk  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AG dFic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AG dFic

14. The Shining  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G7Ju03 5-8U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G7Ju03 5-8U  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmkVW uP_sO0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmkVW uP_sO0

15. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNarV_3 P4oM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNarV_3 P4oM  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9Cby33 ZR98 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9Cby33 ZR98

16. Mean Girls  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAOmT MCtGkI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAOmT MCtGkI  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aunJ5HP 9LYo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aunJ5HP 9LYo

17. Tone and Mood in Writing  Write the following sentences.  Circle words from the sentence that reveal the author’s tone.  Write and box a word to describe the author’s attitude towards the subject. (TONE)  Use your chart!

18.  Bouncing through the door, Alara lit up the room with a joyous glow on her face as she told her parents of her exam scores.

20. Tone? Mood?  She huddled in the corner, clutching her tattered blanket and shaking convulsively, as she feverishly searched the room for the unknown dangers that awaited her.

22. Tone? Mood?  Bursting through the door, the flustered mother screamed uncontrollably at the innocent teacher who gave her child an F.

24. Tone? Mood?  He cautiously glanced back as he heard his relentless pursuers, then hurriedly walked on, jumping at the slightest sound of a leaf crackling under his own foot.

26.  Gently smiling, the mother tenderly tucked the covers up around the child’s neck, and carefully, quietly, left the room making sure to leave a comforting ray of light shining through the opened door should the child wake.

28. Tone? Mood?  The laughing wind skipped through the village, teasing trees until they danced with anger and cajoling the grass into fighting itself, blade slapping blade, as the silly dog with golfball eyes and flopping, slobbery tongue bounded across the lawn.

30. Now try to establish your own tone and mood: Re-write the sentence to create a mood TWICE. Try to manipulate and add words to create a different mood each time. The man walked down the road with one goal in mind.

31. More examples of tone and mood:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDUhDV- 72S0&list=PL6xE0yvamiCS- f4BNuBYWqZogmsacWP4D

32. The Crocodile  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN8Pfuyo wG0