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Welcome!Language Arts

Ms. Marek

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Independent Reading

Retrieve your library book

READ READ READ READ READ READ READ

Schedule

• ALL WEEK: Meetings during reading• FRIDAY: CELEBRATIONS

Monday Drama / Stage DirectionsTuesday Setting and MoodWednesday Plot / ConflictThursday CharacterizationFriday Narrative Review Mini-Quiz

OBJECTIVE

SWBAT identify and describe the setting and the mood and explain how the setting affects the characters and the mood

Objective 3.A.3.c. - Identify and describe the setting and the mood and explain how the setting affects the characters and the mood

Mastery Scores on unit test: Team Yale: 69.3 Team Princeton: 70.8% Team Harvard: 69.3%

Objective 3.A.4.d. - Identify and explain other poetic elements such as setting, mood, tone, etc., that contribute to meaning

Mastery Scores on unit test: Team Yale: 42.6% Team Princeton: 38.1% Team Harvard: 46.7%

Tone

The speaker/poet’s attitude toward his or her subject.

Mood

The feeling or atmosphere of a piece that the author is trying to communicate

Mood is intentional!

Setting

The scene; where and when the narrative takes place– location – year – season – cultural event

Setting and Mood

Physical settings help set the mood of the poem– a poem set in a beautiful nature scene may

relax the reader – a poem set in the aftermath of a bloody battle

sets a mood full of death and suffering.

Anne Frank

Open your textbooks to pg 561, Scene 4 Let’s begin! As we read, pay close attention to the

mood and setting

BCR

Explain how the setting affects the mood. In your response, use details and examples from the play to support your answer.

REMINDERS

READ READ READ!

Start thinking about a book you

want to read.

READ READ READ!

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