Opening Activity:
With your partner, sort these six words from least intense to most intense. Just work it out on your paper for notes.
- fear
- dread
- apprehension
- anxiety
- panic
- terror
Learning Target: I will analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone. |
Essential Question: How do authors use word choice to create meaning and tone? |
Instruction: Concepts, Examples, and Model
Teacher Model
Read the following passage closely. Look for words that add up to meaning and tone.
What does the evidence in the passage suggest about the tone? Which tone word best captures the narrator's attitude towards the "small" fire?
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“You got your small fire all right.”
Smoke was rising here and there among the creepers that festooned the dead or dying trees. As they watched, a flash of fire appeared at the root of one wisp, and then the smoke thickened. Small flames stirred at the trunk of a tree and crawled away through leaves and brushwood, dividing and increasing. One patch touched a tree trunk and scrambled up like a bright squirrel. The smoke increased, sifted, rolled outwards. The squirrel leapt on the wings of the wind and clung to another standing tree, eating downwards. Beneath the dark canopy of leaves and smoke the fire laid hold on the forest and began to gnaw. Acres of black and yellow smoke rolled steadily toward the sea. At the sight of the flames and the irresistible course of the fire, the boys broke into shrill, excited cheering. The flames, as though they were a kind of wild life, crept as a jaguar creeps on its belly toward a line of birch-like saplings that fledged an outcrop of the pink rock. They flapped at the first of the trees, and the branches grew a brief foliage of fire. The heart of flame leapt nimbly across the gap between the trees and then went swinging and flaring along the whole row of them. Beneath the capering boys a quarter of a mile square of forest was savage with smoke and flame. The separate noises of the fire merged into a drum-roll that seemed to shake the mountain. “You got your small fire all right” |
Student Practice for Day 2
In your English folder, please find the document for today (Last, First - Jack Evidence Chapter 3).
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