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This I Believe

This I Believe. Diction and Tone: 1.2.2. Warm-Up. Pop Quiz: Last Week’s Vocabulary. Today we’ll comprehend the relationship between diction and tone using models and writing exercises. . Diction and Tone. Diction: word choice Tone: the author’s attitude toward the subject

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This I Believe

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  1. This I Believe Diction and Tone: 1.2.2

  2. Warm-Up • Pop Quiz: Last Week’s Vocabulary Today we’ll comprehend the relationship between diction and tone using models and writing exercises.

  3. Diction and Tone • Diction: word choice • Tone: the author’s attitude toward the subject • Mood: the emotion the reader experiences • Diction creates tone (as does syntax, etc)

  4. Role Play • “Billy Bob cheated and the teacher didn’t notice.” • Indignant – displeased by something unjust • Envious – coveting someone else’s advantages • Apathetic – not interested or concerned • Outraged – feeling strongly offended • Delighted – wonder, pleasure, approval • Dismayed – disillusioned, alarmed

  5. Transferring Tone to Paper Tone of • Indignation • Envy • Apathy • Outrage • Delight • Dismay Narrator • 5-year-old child • Teacher • Billy Bob • Billy Bob’s peer • Student Billy Bob is copying from

  6. Close Reading: LOF • The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon. Though he had taken off his school sweater and trailed it now from one hand, his grey shirt stuck to him and his hair was plastered to his forehead. All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat.

  7. Close Reading: ORex • Oedipus: • My children, generations of the living • In the line of Kadmos, nursed at his ancient hearth: • Why have you strewn yourselves before these altars • In supplication with your boughs and garlands? • The breath of incense rises from the city • With a sound of prayer and lamentation.

  8. Close Reading: BMU Ultima came to stay with us the summer I was almost seven. When she came the beauty of the llano unfolded before my eyes, and the gurgling waters of the river sang to the hum of the turning earth. The magical time of childhood stood still, and the pulse of the living earth pressed its mystery into my living blood. She took my hand, and the silent, magic powers she possessed made beauty from the raw, sun-baked llano, the green river valley, and the blue bowl which was the white sun’s home.

  9. Reflection • Choose a topic that you believe strongly. • In your journal, explain the topic, imitating the tone of either Golding (Lord of the Flies), Sophocles (Oedipus Rex), or Amaya (Bless me Ultima).

  10. This I Believe Expository Writing: 1.2.3

  11. Warm-Up • Review the list of French phrases – this week’s vocabulary words Today we’ll comprehend expository writing, especially the personal essay, by annotating models.

  12. Expository Writing • Expose, explain, describe, inform • Exposes the writer’s thinking process • Types (just a few) • Analysis • Cause and Effect • Compare and Contrast • Process

  13. Personal Essay

  14. This I Believe is an international organization engaging people in writing and sharing essays describing the core values that guide their daily lives. View the Website

  15. Author’s Purpose • Read each essay. As you read, • identify the author’s purpose (reason for writing) • Entertain, persuade, inform • identify supporting details that effectively contribute to that purpose • pay particular attention to diction that creates a tone that fits the purpose

  16. Reflection • Consider each writing and identify the elements that set that type of writing apart from the other types of writing.

  17. This I Believe Developing Opinions 1.2.4

  18. Warm-Up • Complete Killgallon’s Sentence Composing for Middle School, Activities 3-4. Today we’ll develop our personal beliefs using Four Corners.

  19. Four Corners • I will read a statement and you will decide whether you agree or disagree. • If you aren’t certain, pick the one that seems more likely. • In your journal, write down your belief about this subject. • Go to the corner that represents your feelings. • No more than 9 people per corner. • Discuss this (using last week’s guidelines) • Share stories that show this belief in action • In your journal, record insights you’ve gained

  20. Reflection • Which of the beliefs did you react to most strongly? Which did you feel you could best persuade others about? Is there another belief you hold passionately? Homework • Over the weekend, you will create a Seeing is Believing Poster. It is due at the beginning of class on Monday. Read the handout carefully and follow instructions. This is for a MAJOR ASSESSMENT GRADE.

  21. This I Believe Characteristics of Personal Essays 1.3.1

  22. Warm-Up Today we’ll develop our personal beliefs using Four Corners.

  23. Rhetorical Triangle #1 Topic Author Audience

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  25. Personal vs. Other Expository

  26. Personal vs. Persuasive

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