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Young scholars learn how to distinguish between the mood of a piece of writing (how the work makes the reader feel) and the tone (the writer's attitude toward the material) in the sixth instructional activity in a poetry unit. After watching two very different trailers for the movie Mary Poppins, class members read poems by Dylan Thomas, Edgar Allan Poe, and Maya Angelou to identify both the tone words and mood words used by the writers.
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Instructional Ideas
- Post the class's mood art around the classroom, grouped by the poem
- Remind learners to keep the mood handout in their poetry notebook along with other materials generated throughout the unit
- Encourage poets to submit their poems to the GP competition
Classroom Considerations
- Sixth in a 12-lesson poetry unit designed for seventh graders
- Requires copies and projection equipment for the videos
Pros
- Includes a list of mood words
- The lesson models how to distinguish tone from mood
Cons
- None