Objectives: We will understand tone & diction in order to learn how to make predictions. We will also learn our next piece of literature by the end of class and make predictions about it based on the excerpts we analyze.
TO-DO LIST:
1) Come in, get out your English notebooks, and sit down please ☺
2) First, we will discuss tone and diction. Independently think about your previous experience with tone and diction, and then write down these definitions in your notebook:
Tone: The speaker/writer/narrator's attitude towards their subject(s) & text. It is different from mood because it is the speaker's attitude toward the subject(s), not the audience's attitude toward the subject(s). Can shift throughout the work of literature.
Diction: The choice/use of words that creates a style of speaking/writing.
3) Let's look at these three sentences and identify as a class the:
1) Key words that help us identify tone
2) tone
Sentences:
1) He furtively glanced behind him, for hear of his imagined pursuers, then hurriedly walked on, jumping at the slightest sound even of a leaf crackling under his own foot.
-humorous
-cheerful
-horror
2) Bursting through the door, the flustered mother screamed uncontrollably at the innocent teacher who gave her child an F
-Angry
-Formal
-Humorous
3) 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.
-cheerful
-formal
-playful
When he entered the house, the conquest of his heart was complete. It was one of those spacious farmhouses, with high-ridged but lowly sloping roofs, built in the style handed down from the first Dutch settlers; the low projecting eaves forming a piazza along the front, capable of being closed up in bad weather. Under this were hung flails, harness, various utensils of husbandry, and nets for fishing in the neighboring river. Benches were built along the sides for summer use; and a great spinning-wheel at one end, and a churn at the other, showed the various uses to which this important porch might be devoted. From this piazza the wondering Ichabod entered the hall, which formed the centre of the mansion, and the place of usual residence. Here rows of resplendent pewter, ranged on a long dresser, dazzled his eyes. In one corner stood a huge bag of wool, ready to be spun; in another, a quantity of linsey-woolsey just from the loom; ears of Indian corn, and strings of dried apples and peaches, hung in gay festoons along the walls, mingled with the gaud of red peppers; and a door left ajar gave him a peep into the best parlor, where the claw-footed chairs and dark mahogany tables shone like mirrors; andirons, with their accompanying shovel and tongs, glistened from their covert of asparagus tops; mock-oranges and conch-shells decorated the mantelpiece; strings of various-colored birds eggs were suspended above it; a great ostrich egg was hung from the centre of the room, and a corner cupboard, knowingly left open, displayed immense treasures of old silver and well-mended china.
Here are two lists of useful tone words for the next activity:
4) With the person next to you, work together to decode the tone. One person will highlight/underline the key word choices (diction) and one person will write the tone at the bottom of the page, explaining why. We will come back together in 15 minutes.
PUT BOTH YOU AND YOUR PARTNER'S NAMES AT THE TOP OF YOUR PAGE, AND ONE OF YOU STICK IT IN YOUR ENGLISH NOTEBOOK TO BE GRADED!!!!
So what is our next text?????
..............................
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
5) As your exit ticket, in your notebooks predict in 3-5 sentences what you think will happen in
the plot of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. (This will be based on length, evidence used from your class activity, and the ways in which you portray your ideas in an educational manner).
the plot of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. (This will be based on length, evidence used from your class activity, and the ways in which you portray your ideas in an educational manner).
- Resources for our next unit:
- online version of the text:https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41/41-h/41-h.htm
- audiobook version of the text: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BOYRr48GFY
- fun videos on background knowledge:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozC2KT_RsYc - tour of Sleepy Hollow cemetery with background knowledge on Washington Irving
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI1K-_VTFrQ - clip from 1999 film version (scene on bridge)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc5So0o56Tc - short documentary “A Journey to Sleepy Hollow”
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlXqYLNg8EA - highlights of Sleepy Hollow
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