2. Review Day 2 Setting/Tone/Mood
What is the SETTING of a story?
How does the SETTING impact the MOOD of a story? Give an example.
What is the difference between TONE and MOOD?

3. Examples in Text
During the holidays, my mother's house glittered with decorations and hummed with preparations. We ate cookies and drank cider while we helped her wrap bright packages and trim the tree. We felt warm and excited, listening to Christmas carols and even singing along sometimes. We would tease each other about our terrible voices and then sing even louder.
Mood: content, happy, jubilant, excited, overjoyed
How do we know?
Specific Word Choice:
Words like "warm, excited, glittered, bright” are used by the author.

4. Examples in Text
During the holidays, my mother's house glittered with decorations and hummed with preparations. We ate cookies and drank cider while we helped her wrap bright packages and trim the tree. We felt warm and excited, listening to Christmas carols and even singing along sometimes. We would tease each other about our terrible voices and then sing even louder. Mood: content, happy, jubilant, excited, overjoyed How do we know?
Setting affects Mood

5. Examples in Text Plot affects Mood
During the holidays, my mother's house glittered with decorations and hummed with preparations. We ate cookies and drank cider while we helped her wrap bright packages and trim the tree. We felt warm and excited, listening to Christmas carols and even singing along sometimes. We would tease each other about our terrible voices and then sing even louder.
Mood: content, happy, jubilant, excited, overjoyed
How do we know?
Words like "warm, excited, glittered” are used by the author.
Plot affects Mood

6. Examples in Text
During the holidays, my mother's house glittered with decorations and hummed with preparations. We ate cookies and drank cider while we helped her wrap bright packages and trim the tree. We felt warm and excited, listening to Christmas carols and even singing along sometimes. We would tease each other about our terrible voices and then sing even louder. Mood: content, happy, jubilant, excited, overjoyed How would the mood change if the author would have said, “We would make fun of each other about our terrible voices…”?
Discuss how the word(s)’ connotations impact mood.

7. Examples in Text How do we know?
After New Year's the time came to put all the decorations away and settle in for the long, cold winter. The house seemed to sigh as we boxed up its finery. The tree was dry and brittle, and now waited lonely, by the side of the road to be picked up.
Mood: dreary, depressed, melancholy, heartbroken…
How do we know?
Specific Word Choice:
“long, cold, sigh, brittle, lonely“

8. Examples in Text How do we know?
After New Year's the time came to put all the decorations away and settle in for the long, cold winter. The house seemed to sigh as we boxed up its finery. The tree was dry and brittle, and now waited lonely, by the side of the road to be picked up.
Mood: dreary, depressed, melancholy, heartbroken…
How do we know?
Setting affects Mood

9. Examples in Text How do we know?
After New Year's the time came to put all the decorations away and settle in for the long, cold winter. The house seemed to sigh as we boxed up its finery. The tree was dry and brittle, and now waited lonely, by the side of the road to be picked up.
Mood: dreary, depressed, melancholy, heartbroken…
How do we know?
What figurative language can you identify in the passage? How does it impact the mood of the text?

10. Figurative Language impacts the Mood of the story.
Examples in Text
After New Year's the time came to put all the decorations away and settle in for the long, cold winter. The house seemed to sigh as we boxed up its finery. The tree was dry and brittle, and now waited lonely, by the side of the road to be picked up.
Mood: dreary, depressed, melancholy, heartbroken…
How do we know?
What figurative language can you identify in the passage? How does it impact the mood of the text?
By personifying the tree, we feel sorry for it. We feel sympathetic and perhaps guilty that we used it up and threw it away.
Figurative Language impacts the Mood of the story.

11. TONE I don’t like your tone!!
When have you heard this before? How did your tone affect your parent’s mood?
How does your parent’s tone affect your mood?

13. What is Tone?
The tone of a text tells you how the author feels about the subject- his or her attitude
Tone can be understood by looking for positive or negative language used by the author
The tone of a text can be positive (+), negative (-), or neutral.

14. TONE
Identifying the TONE is all about knowing the definitions of many descriptive vocabulary words. Without this large vocabulary, it’s difficult to describe outside of “good” and “bad.”

15. Mnemonic (Memory) Device
Tone = Writer’s attitude toward the subject
(writer’s feelings)
Mood= How Me feels
(reader’s feelings)

16. TONE So, let’s TONE our brain muscles with descriptive vocabulary exercises!!
If the writer’s TONE is…
Then the reader’s MOOD is…
Bitter
Serious
Witty
Playful
Tender
Sympathetic
Optimistic
Fearful
Impartial
Cheerful
Amusing
Angry
Detached
Gentle
Sincere
Compassionate
Humorous
Afraid
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17. Tone and Mood Tone and Mood Frozen Trailer
Tangled Tone/Mood Change Trailer
How is the tone and mood different than what you expected?
What contributed to this change?
How did the setting impact the mood?
How did the tone impact the mood?

18. Terrible, victims, serious, unclean, worst
Examples in Text
The homeless face terrible problems. Many become victims of violence. Serious health problems may begin because they are exposed to bad weather and unclean conditions. Homeless children may miss the chance to go to school. Worst of all, some cities pass laws that make it even harder on the homeless.
The Tone of this passage is:
a. positive
b. neutral
c. negative
Which word best describes the author’s attitude toward the problems of the homeless?
a. upset
b. uncaring
c. amused
Tone clue words:
Terrible, victims, serious, unclean, worst
Analyze the text—how do we know?

19. Examples in Text
Donovan and Larry were early for baseball practice. They decided to run up and down the bleachers to exercise before the rest of the team arrived. Larry was first to the top. He whispered to Donovan, “Look over there.” He pointed to a man sleeping on the highest, narrow bench of the bleachers. His pants and shirt were faded, worn, and too large for his thin frame. One big toe stuck out of a huge hole in his sock. His scraped-up shoes sat a few feet away. Donovan whispered, “We should help him out. Let’s hide something good in his shoes. Then, when he wakes up, he will have a nice surprise.” Larry smiled. He enjoyed giving to others.
Which word best describes the author’s attitude toward the homeless man?
a. angry
b. uncaring
c. sympathetic
The Tone of this passage is:
a. positive
b. neutral
c. negative
Analyze the text—how do we know?
Tone clue words:
Help, nice, good, giving, smile