Mrs Terry Language Arts Objective By the end of the lesson each student will be able to analyze the relevance of setting to the mood and tone of the novel they are reading in their reading response journals Responses will be evaluated using a standardsbased rubric ID: 441506
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Setting Journal
Mrs. Terry, Language ArtsSlide2
Objective
By the end of the lesson, each student will be able to analyze the relevance of setting to the mood and tone of the novel they are reading in their reading response journals. Responses will be evaluated using a standards-based rubric.Slide3
Opening Activity
How does setting affect the mood of the story?
Fill in the blanks on the following slides with setting details (time, place, description) that you would expect to find for the given genres (types, styles) of fiction.Slide4
Instructions
:
Fill
in the blanks with setting details (time, place, description) that you would expect to find for the given genres (types, styles) of fiction.Slide5
Instructional Content
Setting:
In fiction, setting includes the time, location, and everything in which a story takes place, and initiates the main backdrop and mood for a story.
Consider the setting of the murderers den in Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Waxwork,” or the lighthouse in “Three Skeleton Key.”
How does this setting make you feel? In other words, how does the setting affect the mood and tone of the story?Slide6
Instructional Content
The 7
th
& 8
th
grade standard for
setting states: “The student will analyze the relevance of the setting to the mood and tone of the text.”This is a very challenging standard that involves high-level thinking! In order to do this, you must be able to recognize the difference between mood and tone.Slide7
Mood vs. Tone
The author’s tone sets the reader’s mood.
Mood:
the atmosphere or feeling created in the reader, evoked through the language of the text.
Tone:
the attitude the writer takes toward the subject, the characters, or the audience
.Connotation: the feelings associated with a wordDenotation: the dictionary definition of a word think “D” dictionarySlide8
Mood vs. Tone Example
Charlie surveyed the classroom of dolts, congratulating himself for snatching the higher test grade, the smug smirk on his face growing brighter and brighter as he confirmed the inferiority of his peers."
The character Charlie's
MOOD
is:
gleeful superiority
The author's TONE is: exaggerated, somewhat cynicalSlide9
Calm
Cheerful
Chilling
Comical
Dark
Depressing
DismalEerieFancifulForebodingGloomyGrimGrotesqueHeart-breakingHeartrendingHoly
Hopeful
Horrific
Intense
Joyful
Light
Lighthearted
Melancholic
Morbid
Mournful
Mysterious
Ominous
Optimistic
Pessimistic
Powerful
Romantic
Sad
Sinister
SoothingSorrowfulSpiritualSpookyTerrifyingThreateningTranquilWhimsical
Mood is the feeling created in the reader,
evoked through the language of the text
:
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affectionate
aggravated
aloof
amused
angry
apathetic
appreciativeapprovingarrogantbittercalmcelebratorycondescendingcontemplativecriticalcynical
dark
dejected
depressed
desperate
despondent
didactic
disappointed
disapproving
disgusted
disinterested
distant
droll
earnest
ecstatic
emphatic
encouraging
enthusiastic
excitedfacetiousformalhappyhaughtyhurtinformalintenseironicjoyfullackadaisicallanguid
light-hearted
melancholymelodramaticnervousneutralnonchalantoptimisticparanoidpassivepatronizingpessimisticplaintiveplayfulpleadingproudromanticsadsarcasticscornfulserioussinceresombersoothingsuperficialsuspicioussympatheticuninterestedwhimsicalwistful wry
TONE describes the
author’s attitude
toward his/her subject.
The attitude may be
stated
in so many words or
implied
. Diction is a key to tone. Tones can be (among other things):Slide11
Applying this to your Reading
Select a section of your book or story that describes the setting.
How does this setting make you feel?
How does this setting affect the mood and tone of the story?
U
se the words
mood and tone when writing your journal entry.Pull details (words and phrases) from the passage to support your ideas.Slide12
Setting Journal Example
Text
“It was high summer coming to fall and Brian was back in the far reaches of wilderness– or as he thought of it now, home. East edge of a small lake, midday, there would be small fish in the reeds and lily pads, sunfish and bluegills, good eating fish… Sun high overhead, warm on his back but not hot…”
(from
Brian’s Song
by Gary Paulsen, pages 1 and 3)
Response This setting creates a mood that is content, peaceful, contemplative and observant. Brian is taking in his surroundings and has accepted his circumstance. The narrator describes the scene as “high summer” and “home” with “small fish” and “lily pads.” These details create a happy and positive mood. In addition, the sun is “warm but not hot” creating a pleasant feeling in the reader. The narrator seems sincere and in touch with nature, and his tone (attitude) is understanding, light-hearted and content. Slide13
Setting Journal Example
Text
“In the Olympic Peninsula of northwest Washington State, a small town named Forks exists under a near-constant cover of clouds. It rains on this inconsequential town more than any other place in the United States of America. It was from this town and its gloomy, omnipresent shade that my mother escaped with me when I was only a few months old”
(from
Twilight
by Stephenie Meyer, page 3).Response This setting creates a dark, grim, boring, and gloomy mood. The tone of the passage is cynical, sarcastic, melodramatic, pessimistic, apathetic, dark and condescending. The narrator describes Forks as “inconsequential” and “gloomy” and she compares it to a prison when she says “my mother escaped with me.” She obviously has a very negative perception of her home town and is reluctant to return. Slide14
Setting Journal Example
Text
“Picture a gray, tapering cylinder, welded to the solid black rock by iron rods and concrete, rising from a small island twenty-odd miles from land. In the midst of the sea, this island, a small, bare piece of stone, about one hundred fifty feet long, perhaps forty wide. Small, barely enough for a man to walk about and stretch his legs at low tide”
(from “Three Skeleton Key” by George T.
Toudoze
, pg 66)Response The setting of “Three Skeleton Key” creates a lonely and desolate mood because the lighthouse is located on a “bare piece of stone” 20 miles from land in the “midst of the sea.” The author’s use of imagery in this passage, "a gray, tapering cylinder, welded to the solid black rock by iron rods and concrete,” brings to mind a prison cell, and creates a cold and dark atmosphere for the story. The author uses these details to establish a suspenseful and mysterious tone. The reader can infer from this setting that something frightening or dangerous is going to happen. Comparing the lighthouse to a prison in this description suggests that the characters in the story may become trapped on the island forever. Slide15
Homework, due Wed. Nov. 13
Finish writing a setting journal entry modeled after the examples you have just read.
Your journal entry must be based on one of the following quarter two stories:
“The Monkey’s Paw”
“Three Skeleton Key”
“The Landlady”
Note: these stories are all linked on my website or can easily be found through Google. Students without internet at home are welcome to sign out a textbook.