Lesson 9: Author's Tool Box Setting the Scene
This lesson takes 6 slides to inform us that authors use words to set a tone (or mood) for their writing.
Just like how an interior decorator uses color, shapes and textures to give a 'feel' to a room, so do writers use words to create the 'feel' of their writing.
The art of word choice is called 'diction' in these lessons.
Just like how an interior decorator uses color, shapes and textures to give a 'feel' to a room, so do writers use words to create the 'feel' of their writing.
The art of word choice is called 'diction' in these lessons.
diction
Please note the three different levels of diction identified by this lesson on slide 2. There will be a quiz question about formal, standard and informal diction.
Tone
Word choice (diction) leads to tone.
Note the several different tones listed in the lesson on slide 3: angry, sad, calm, etc.
The interactive of drag and drop on slide 3 seems like a pretty decent way of identifying the tone of written work.
The 'Little Brother' box at the bottom of slide 3 gives a good example of two quiz questions you'll need to answer at the end of the lesson.
View this 1:42 minute video for an easy explanation of connotation and denotation:
Note the several different tones listed in the lesson on slide 3: angry, sad, calm, etc.
The interactive of drag and drop on slide 3 seems like a pretty decent way of identifying the tone of written work.
The 'Little Brother' box at the bottom of slide 3 gives a good example of two quiz questions you'll need to answer at the end of the lesson.
View this 1:42 minute video for an easy explanation of connotation and denotation:
Mood
Diction (word choice) leads to mood.
Mood is created by imagery.
IMAGERY: the author's appeal to the reader's senses of taste, touch, smell, sight and hearing.
There is practice identifying imagery on slide 5.
Mood is created by imagery.
IMAGERY: the author's appeal to the reader's senses of taste, touch, smell, sight and hearing.
There is practice identifying imagery on slide 5.
Assessment: quiz
There is an 11 question quiz at the end of this lesson.
Please be prepared to identify:
formal, standard and informal diction
imagery
Words you should know that may or may not have been introduced in the lesson:
exciting
somber
joking
hostile
pajamas
thrilled
evoke
Be aware that you'll be reading excerpts from 'Little Brother' on the quiz that we have not read thus far. Be prepared to identify the tone/mood of the excepts and supporting your answer with examples from the excerpt.
YOU GOT THIS!!!
Finish your novels and Text Analysis Graphic Organizers. You'll turn them in next lesson! (Not the novel, of course).
Please be prepared to identify:
formal, standard and informal diction
imagery
Words you should know that may or may not have been introduced in the lesson:
exciting
somber
joking
hostile
pajamas
thrilled
evoke
Be aware that you'll be reading excerpts from 'Little Brother' on the quiz that we have not read thus far. Be prepared to identify the tone/mood of the excepts and supporting your answer with examples from the excerpt.
YOU GOT THIS!!!
Finish your novels and Text Analysis Graphic Organizers. You'll turn them in next lesson! (Not the novel, of course).