POETRY: Tone and Mood

How do you feel after……..

Who or what determines your mood throughout

the day?

Are you more influenced by your friends?

The weather?

Stress?

What you do?

Where you are?

Skill Focus:

What is the difference between TONE and MOOD?

Tone: is the author’s attitude toward his or her work or a character in the poem.  Tone can usually be summed up in one word. : serious, humorous, adoring, affectionate, appreciative, approving, cheerful

Mood: the emotions that you feel while you are reading. Some literature makes you feel sad, others joyful, still others, angry. The main purpose for some poems is to set a mood..

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

In this book, the main character is a very

slender student named Greg.

When we think of slender, we sometimes

think of a secondary meaning, which is

“ scrawny”.

What is the author’s tone when he says:

“Dang! Greg is scrawny!”

The author feels that Greg is wimpy and weak.

How does TONE lead to MOOD?After determining the attitude of the

author or speaker, you should then consider how the tone makes you feel. This is called the mood.

An author can bring out in us a varied set of emotions such as sadness, anger, joy, or surprise.

The best way to explain mood is to recall the feeling you had the first time they heard a ghost story.

How did you feel????

The feeling you felt is mood.

Try to avoid the basics:

It’s easy to just label your mood as the basics: happy, sad, angry. Consider the following:

happy excited frustrated confused

angry sad surprised anxious

scared unhappy nervous relieved

relaxed reassured passionate embarrassed

irritated disappointed uncertain skeptical

optimistic restless threatened offended

heartbroken mournful bored guilty

Even movie makers strive to set a certain tone and mood for their work.

Just like an author uses word choice and vivid imagery to set tone and mood, movie makers use, dialogue, music, and lighting to establish a certain tone within their films.

http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?title=SpongeBob_Jaws&video_id=81959

Mood Activity

Based on the “Jaws” Trailer you just watched, put your heads together to determine the tone and mood. Write them on your list.

Remember Tone is one word and Mood can be several!

Next………………..

A Penny for your thoughts…..Tone: solemn, tense, sarcastic, serious,

enthusiastic, fearful, humorous, frightened, anxious, nervous, somber.

Mood: happy, confused, unhappy, angry, anxious, scared, uncertain, reassured, nervous, excited, distressed, drained, suspenseful, terrifying.

Does mood really matter?

1. As you watch the video, select THREE words that express the tone that best represents the attitude of the trailer’s creators and add them to your chart.

2. What mood can best describe your feelings after watching Video #1?

1. In the next video we will watch, film-makers are trying to recut the film in a very different way, select THREE words to express the tone of this version and add them to your chart.

2. What mood can best describe your feelings after watching Video #2?

The original Mary Poppins theatrical trailer (released in 1964). 

http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?title=Original_Mary_Poppins_Trailer&video_id=146434

http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=146433&title=Scary_Mary_Poppins_Trailer

Your Turn……..

Students will be divided into small groups and each group will be given a card with one of the following words on it: sadness, courage, cheerful, terrified, love, friendly, funny, excitement, angry, confused, nervous, hopeful and worried.  

Students will write a description of a person walking a dog in the park according to the tone word they have been given.

When you have finished with your descriptions, you will read them to the class and the class will try to guess what tone word they had and share the mood it put the class in.

Poems to Read to

determine

Tone and Mood

Can you find the mood in these poems?

         Winter Garden

Stark naked flower stalksStand shivering in the wind.The cheerless sun hides its black lightBehind bleak, angry clouds,While trees vainly tryTo catch their escaping leaves.Carpets of grass turn brown,Blending morosely with the dreary day.Winter seems the death of life forever.

         Spring Garden

Stunningly dressed flower stalksStand shimmering in the breeze.The cheerful sun hides playfullyBehind white, fluffy, cotton-ball clouds,While trees whisper secretsTo their rustling leaves.Carpets of grass greenly glowBlending joyfully with the day.Spring brings life to death.

“Daisy Time” by Marjorie Pickthall

See, the grass is full of stars,

Fallen in their brightness;

Hearts they have of shining gold,

Rays of shining whiteness.

Buttercups have honeyed hearts,

Bees they love the clover,

But I love the daisies' dance

All the meadow over.

Blow, O blow, you happy winds,

Singing summer's praises,

Up the field and down the field

A-dancing with the daisies.