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ENGLISH II SEPTEMBER 24

ENGLISH II SEPTEMBER 24. Turn in your worksheets for “On the Rainy River” on the stool! No warm-up. Instead, there will be a cool-down. REMINDERS. Homework: commas packet will be due on WEDNESDAY instead of Friday (due to homework conflicts).

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ENGLISH II SEPTEMBER 24

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  1. ENGLISH IISEPTEMBER 24 Turn in your worksheets for “On the Rainy River” on the stool! No warm-up. Instead, there will be a cool-down.

  2. REMINDERS • Homework: commas packet will be due on WEDNESDAY instead of Friday (due to homework conflicts). • Go over all three sets of comma rules AND complete the comma practice sheets (behind each set of comma rules) • Quiz on comma rules WEDNESDAY.  • Continue to bring your textbook week! • Take notes on the following slides and title them “Tone.” • Keep notes in a separate area of your notebook so they are easy to find during the end of semester notes-collection!

  3. STANDARDS Reading 3.9 Explain how voice [and] persona… affect characterization and the tone…

  4. TONE • Tone= the emotion being communicated by the author, speaker, or character. • Two things that help us to discover the TONE of literature = DICTION and IMAGERY • Note: When identifying tone, do not use the words “happy” or “sad.” Use stronger, better diction. • Use your tone words. (Keep these in your binder.)

  5. TONE • To identify tone, it is important to not just say “positive” or “negative” but to list a specific emotion. • Identify what the tone is directed towards. A speaker can have many different tones towards different things • For example, in “The Rattler” the speaker feels respect and admiration for the rattlesnake. Also, the speaker feels guilty about killing the snake. • What would you say is one of Tim O’Brien’s main tones in “On the Rainy River”? • What is that emotion directed towards?

  6. TONE • Let’s look at some different tones toward the same subject. Figure out what word you would use to describe tone in these three sentences: • The coat was exquisitely tailored and flowed from her shoulders with casual grace, as if it were a natural complement to her reed-like figure. • The speaker’s tone is ________ towards _________.

  7. TONE • Let’s find the tone of THIS speaker now: • The coat was well-tailored but hung loosely on her stick-like frame, as if somehow a tent had imploded but was still held up by the pole in the center. • Tone? Towards?

  8. TONE • What’s the tone of this speaker? • The coat must have cost more than the average workman makes in a month. And what was its use? To enhance this useless stick of a woman, who starved herself in the interest of fashion. • Tone? Towards?

  9. COOL-DOWN Cool-down: 1) Write a 4-sentence description of this room, using powerful imagery and diction. Give this description ANY positive tone. Ex.: “When I walk into room A183, I smell the sweet, flowery scent of body spray that many beautiful young women have on.” 2) Write a 4-sentence description of this room, using powerful imagery and diction. Give this description ANY negative tone. Ex.: “When I walk into room A183, the dim lighting, which makes me have to squint to see, always gives me an immediate headache.” 3) After you write both descriptions… a.) Identify the exact tone (emotion) that you were striving to achieve in the first description (CS!) b) Identify the tone that you were going for in the second description (CS!)

  10. READING QUIZ 1: “On the Rainy River” In at least two sentences, describe how the story ends. Give enough details about exactly what happened so that I know that you read. Turn it in on the stool before you leave!

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