Content-Area Project #2: ELA & Mobile Learning
Background
- Content Area: English 7
- Title: Understanding Tone and Mood
- Big Idea: Word choice affects the tone and mood of a piece of writing.
- Essential Questions:
- How does word choice determine tone and mood?
- How does tone and mood affect readers?
- How does tone and mood affect the purpose of a piece of literature?
- Objectives:
- CCSS.RL.7.4 - Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama.
- CCSS.W.7.4 - Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
- CCSS.W.7.6 - Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and link to and cite sources as well as to interact and collaborate with others, including linking to and citing sources.
- CCSS.RL.7.4 - Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama.
- Summative Assessment: Students will write a creative paragraph utilizing one of the tone and mood words studied in this lesson. Students will make this paragraph into a 4-option multiple choice question, add it to a Google Classroom discussion board, and answer at least 5 of their classmates's multiple choice questions.
- Hook: Students will scan a QR code using QR Reader to view a Tone and Mood Movie Trailer 1 and tweet their reaction to the "new" movie trailer using the hashtag #jovialtoeerie (jovial to eerie). Following students tweets, we will discuss as a class what changed the tone and mood and how it affected our (as readers/viewers) perception of the movie.
Lesson Body
- Explanation: Students will scan QR code to view Tone and Mood tutorial video. Next, students will using the Merriam-Webster Dictionary app to define the following tone and mood words: reverent, perplexed, nostalgic, melancholy, eerie, sarcastic, mellow, apathetic, optimistic, and pessimistic. Students will take screenshots of each tone and mood words definition.
- Check for Understanding: Students will use the Lark by Storybird app to choose an illustration and create a short line/poem expressing one of the previously defined tone and mood words. Students will share to Google Classroom.
- Extended Practice: Students will practice identifying tone and mood using Quizizz practice game. Students may use screenshot definitions to aid them during game.
Lesson Closing
- Closing: Students will write a creative paragraph utilizing one of the tone and mood words from this lesson. Students will turn creative paragraph into a multiple choice question with 4 tone and mood words (all from this lesson) as options. Then, students will post paragraph question to Google Classroom discussion board. Students will respond (answer) to at least 5 of their classmates's multiple choice questions.
- Smartphones or iPads & Internet (access to download apps if needed)
- Headphones
- YouTube app
- QR Reader
- Twitter app
- Merriam-Webster Dictionary app
- Lark app (by Storybird)
- Quizizz Student app
- Google Classroom app