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Do Now:
Open to your Journal section and respond to this prompt:
Tell me about a day when you were in a bad mood. What happened?
• Tone is the AUTHOR’S attitude towards the audience, the subject, or the character• You can recognize the tone by the
author’s choice of words.
• Watch this video clip. What is the tone of the clip? What is the author (person making this video)’s attitude towards the subject?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuWf9fP-A-U
Now watch this video clip, made by a different person or “author”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic
How has the tone of the clip changed now that it has a new author?
• Mood is the overall atmosphere created by the author’s words.
• The mood is created by the setting, the characters, and their actions
• It is the feeling the reader gets from the author’s words.
DESCRIBING MOOD• Adjectives describe Mood• Remember that you are not describing
the way the person feels, but rather the feeling of their environment
• Mood words can be either positive or negative
• Examples: relaxed, cozy, romantic, gloomy, frightening, somber
When you identify mood, ask this question:
How did this excerpt or story make you or the character feel?
You will need to use adjectives!
What is the mood of this picture?
Mood: Example 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.
1) What is the mood of this excerpt?2) What words in the text make you think that?
Mood: ExampleAfter 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 forlornly by the side of the road to be picked up.
1) What is the mood of this excerpt?2) What words in the text make you think that?
Descriptive Mood Words:• Cheerful• Relieved• Gloomy• Bleak• Uncertain• Bittersweet• Relaxed • Hopeless• Tense
Furious
Disappointed
Content
Satisfied
Enraged
Motivated
Inspired
Confident
Eerie
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TONE AND MOOD
• Tone = Person + Attitude• Mood = Environment
With your group, choose a word from each column. Then write a short story involving those items.
Mood• Scary• Funny• Utopian (perfect)• Magical and whimsical• Somber (very sad)
Setting• School• Circus• House• Movie theater• Grocery store• Field or campsite