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Read the passage. Which of the words listed below best reinforces the author’s melancholy mood?

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B. ........
C. ........

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Scene: Juliet tells her father that she doesn’t want to marry Paris and her father gets very angry with her. Her father doesn’t know that she’s already married Romeo.

Part I:
Infer the role of women based on that scene.

Part II:
Identify specific words or phrases to support your answer.

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After reading [text selection] write an paragraph in which you analyze the author's word choice and how those words contribute to the texts tone. Be sure to include specific examples of word choice.

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Analyze the cumulative impact of your word choice on the mood/tone. Be specific. 

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Analyze the cumulative impact of your word choice on the mood/tone. Be specific. 

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(Question given after mood/tone grabbag writing activity.
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two + passages that tell the same story with different tone words.

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two + passages that tell the same story with different tone words.

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Identify the which words make the tone and mood different.

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Give the students two versions of a plot with which they are familiar (so they're not caught up by the plot of a challenging text, such as R+J) have them analyze the texts to find the tone. Furthermore, if the plot is the same, how does the word choice ground the story in a new setting? Also, how does the time period in which the author is writing affect the way they adapt the original text (specifically word choice)?

Central and South

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Identify context clues that helped you determine meaning of unknown word(s)

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Identify context clues that helped you determine meaning of unknown word(s)

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Strategy for mood/tone grabbag assessment. Analyze their own writing and consider the impact of their own word choices on mood and tone. (Close-reading, drafting, annotation)

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From SGHS & LHS: Sort (manual or digital) 

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From SGHS & LHS: Sort (manual or digital) 

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Give students examples of mood & tone & have them sort.

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Look at tone/mood in non-text formats and discuss music, editing, composition, etc. and then apply these types of discussions/writing to text examples. (ex. "Scary Mary" vs. "Mary Poppins" trailers)

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Tone word list (given) each word is discussed as either positive, negative or neural! After students use context clues to define unknown words, they will determine the connotation and denotation of words

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From SGHS & LHS: If referring to QPTS; Compare & Contrast, Vocabulary

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From SGHS & LHS: If referring to QPTS; Compare & Contrast, Vocabulary

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Students will get a note card and given 5-10 minutes to write their response to an opening ended questions from the scene with Juliet and her father.

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Create a twitter message (160 characters or less) that mirrors Romeo or Juliet’s tone/mood when he/she discovers the other is dead.