What question will help you gauge students' level of understanding? by Brooke Webb https://padlet.com/brooketwebb/p3zyx0nc2r17 Language Arts en-us 2019-05-28 10:30:26 UTC 2019-05-28 19:04:25 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/brooketwebb/p3zyx0nc2r17/wish/364046223 Read the passage. Which of the words listed below best reinforces the author’s melancholy mood? 

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B. ........
C. ........]]> 2019-05-28 14:54:50 UTC https://padlet.com/brooketwebb/p3zyx0nc2r17/wish/364046223 two + passages that tell the same story with different tone words. https://padlet.com/brooketwebb/p3zyx0nc2r17/wish/364047417 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]]> 2019-05-28 14:57:37 UTC https://padlet.com/brooketwebb/p3zyx0nc2r17/wish/364047417 Analyze the cumulative impact of your word choice on the mood/tone. Be specific. https://padlet.com/brooketwebb/p3zyx0nc2r17/wish/364047437 (Question given after mood/tone grabbag writing activity.
____________________________________________________________]]> 2019-05-28 14:57:39 UTC https://padlet.com/brooketwebb/p3zyx0nc2r17/wish/364047437 LHS Crew https://padlet.com/brooketwebb/p3zyx0nc2r17/wish/364048173 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)]]> 2019-05-28 14:59:32 UTC https://padlet.com/brooketwebb/p3zyx0nc2r17/wish/364048173 From SGHS & LHS: Sort (manual or digital) linda_mcmahon https://padlet.com/brooketwebb/p3zyx0nc2r17/wish/364048282 Give students examples of mood & tone & have them sort.]]> 2019-05-28 14:59:47 UTC https://padlet.com/brooketwebb/p3zyx0nc2r17/wish/364048282 https://padlet.com/brooketwebb/p3zyx0nc2r17/wish/364048347 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.]]> 2019-05-28 15:00:00 UTC https://padlet.com/brooketwebb/p3zyx0nc2r17/wish/364048347 Identify context clues that helped you determine meaning of unknown word(s) https://padlet.com/brooketwebb/p3zyx0nc2r17/wish/364048941 2019-05-28 15:01:29 UTC https://padlet.com/brooketwebb/p3zyx0nc2r17/wish/364048941 Ticket out the door https://padlet.com/brooketwebb/p3zyx0nc2r17/wish/364049357 40/70/100
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. ]]> 2019-05-28 15:02:42 UTC https://padlet.com/brooketwebb/p3zyx0nc2r17/wish/364049357 From SGHS & LHS: If referring to QPTS; Compare & Contrast, Vocabulary linda_mcmahon https://padlet.com/brooketwebb/p3zyx0nc2r17/wish/364049365 2019-05-28 15:02:44 UTC https://padlet.com/brooketwebb/p3zyx0nc2r17/wish/364049365 https://padlet.com/brooketwebb/p3zyx0nc2r17/wish/364049485 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)]]> 2019-05-28 15:03:04 UTC https://padlet.com/brooketwebb/p3zyx0nc2r17/wish/364049485 https://padlet.com/brooketwebb/p3zyx0nc2r17/wish/364049641 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 ]]> 2019-05-28 15:03:33 UTC https://padlet.com/brooketwebb/p3zyx0nc2r17/wish/364049641 Ticket out the door https://padlet.com/brooketwebb/p3zyx0nc2r17/wish/364050361 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. ]]> 2019-05-28 15:05:38 UTC https://padlet.com/brooketwebb/p3zyx0nc2r17/wish/364050361 160 or less https://padlet.com/brooketwebb/p3zyx0nc2r17/wish/364051014 Create a twitter message (160 characters or less) that mirrors Romeo or Juliet’s tone/mood when he/she discovers the other is dead.

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