Tone Mood Activities - Word Choice - Literary Devices Activity - Author's Craft
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Grade Levels
6th - 9th
Subjects
Resource Type
Standards
CCSSRI.7.4
CCSSRI.8.4
CCSSRI.9-10.4
CCSSRI.11-12.4
Formats Included
- PDF
- Google Apps™
Pages
36 pages
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Description
This teaching bundle includes tone activities that will teach your students how to successfully analyze the tone in literature and writing. This literary device lesson and tone activities take 2-3 one hour class periods to complete.
This resource includes the following materials:
- Analyzing Tone in Literature Google Slides presentation (30+ slides)
- DIDLS Charts for Strategic Tone Analysis – Diction, Imagery, Details, Language, Syntax
- Four Poems to Analyze – Same Subject, Different Tones
- Teacher’s Key for ALL poems and activities
- Tone Tweets – Engaging activity analyzing 25 real life tweets with student handout and teacher answer key
- Tone Short Story Reading Passages for Practice and Application
- Application Activity for Assessment – High School Graduation: Two Teens with Different Viewpoints
- Tone Writing Application Activity – My Greatest Fear
- Tone Words and Word Choice Reference Sheet (positive, neutral, and negative connotation)
- Annotation Activities for active reading practice and examples
- Teacher Notes and Pacing Guide
- Google Drive share links for all resources AND pdf handouts provided for printing options
Teach your students how to analyze tone in literature and writing with active reading strategies, annotation, and analysis!
If you are looking for additional ways to teach author’s craft, try
Bias Buster! Author's Purpose and Bias in Informational Text
Total Pages
36 pages
Answer Key
Included with rubric
Teaching Duration
3 days
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Standards
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CCSSRI.7.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.
CCSSRI.8.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
CCSSRI.9-10.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language of a court opinion differs from that of a newspaper).
CCSSRI.11-12.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term or terms over the course of a text (e.g., how Madison defines faction in Federalist No. 10).
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