Drama Tone Mood Welcome to class Grab your

Drama: Tone & Mood

Welcome to class! �Grab your journal! �Check your grades! Figure out what you’re missing! Now! Turn in your … ▪ Current Event Assignment ▪ Grammar Handout �Today’s Agenda: Poetry Assignment (Handout) Discuss Hitchhiker Tone and Mood Create Poem

Scary Mary �Trailer to “Scary Mary”

Tone & Mood What’s your favorite song? What kind of mood does it put you in? Is there are distinctive beat? Rhythm? �Tone refers to the author’s attitude toward the text (ie: how things are said). �Mood refers to the atmosphere of the text, or to the way that a text makes a reader feel (ie: how it makes you feel).

Common Tone Words In pairs, you will be very briefly (in 5 seconds) act out your assigned tone word. You will have 5 minutes to figure out what your word means, put it in your own words and figure out how to act it out. �Admiring �Angry �Cautionary �Celebratory �Conversational �Discouraged �Impartial �Impassioned �Indifferent �Informative �Optimistic �Pessimistic �Playful �Threatening

Identifying Tone �What is the tone of “Scary Mary? ” Original : Mary Poppins �What is the tone of “Shining? ” Original : Shining �What is the tone of “Stephen King’s IT? ” Original : IT �What is the tone of “Lurk and Lurker? ” Original : Dumb and Dumber �Stem: “The tone of _____ is _____ because _______. ”

Read “The Hitchhiker” �Read “The Hitchhiker” aloud.

Exit Ticket: Tone & Mood The Hitchhiker is on pg. 814 of the blue book. 1. Briefly summarize The Hitchhiker (5 -8 sentences). What do you think happened? 2. Write a paragraph describing the tone and mood of the play. 3. Identify 2 dramatic conventions that were used in the play? Explain how they were used? How did they help enhance the play? `

�Stems: The tone of The Hitchhiker is ____ because ______. A great example of this can be seen when the author writes, “_____. ” The mood of The Hitchhiker is _______ because ______.