Welcome to our English 1 Live Lessons!

1. Welcome to our English 1 Live Lessons! “Tone, Mood, Denotation, and Connotation” *Collaboration Credit is also available in this live lesson for either Segment 1 or 2. Make sure your Microphone and Sound is working for participation in today’s session: On the toolbar at the top of the screen, go to: • “Tools” • “Audio” • “Audio Setup Wizard” Please sign in with FULL NAME and TEACHER NAME! Example: Sue Perkid – Mrs. A. Mazing

2. Sound Check Using the Microphone If you can hear me, click the smiley face  To Check Your Sound and Microphone “Tools” > “Audio” > “Audio Setup Wizard”

3. Using the Chat Box Polling Writing on the screen Writing on the Whiteboard To Check Your Sound and Microphone “Tools” > “Audio” > “Audio Setup Wizard”

4. Session Expectations • Be respectful of yourself and others. • You must participate in all activities during the session. • Using a microphone is the preferred method of discussion participation. • Make sure to stay until you are dismissed to receive all the information for the exam and your collaboration assignment. • Take notes. • Today’s session will be about 45 minutes. To Check Your Sound and Microphone “Tools” > “Audio” > “Audio Setup Wizard”

5. Objectives for Learning • What is Connotation and Denotation? • Practice • What is Tone? • Practice • What is Mood? • Practice • Collaboration Assignments and Directions • Mood, Tone, Denotation, and Connotation are skills you will be learning and using in: • Segment 1: Units 2 and 3, Exam • Segment 2: Units 6, Exam

6. Connotation and Denotation

7. Connotation and Denotation Connotation • the connection one has with the word. Home: safety, and comfort Denotation • the dictionary definition of the word. Home: a place where one dwells

8. Deciphering Connotation To decipher connotation, ask: • What do you picture in your mind? • How do the words make you feel? • Which seems positive? Negative? Old vs. Antique

9. Connotation– the meaning suggestedby a word. What is the connotation (the suggested meaning) of this picture?

10. Connotation After earning a few dollars working on my brother-in law's farm near Portage [Wisconsin], I set off on the first of my long lonely excursions, botanising in glorious freedom around the Great Lakes and wandering through innumerable tamarac and arbor-vitae swamps, and forests of maple, basswood, ash, elm, balsam, fir, pine, spruce, hemlock, rejoicing in their bound wealth and strength and beauty, climbing the trees, revelling in their flowers and fruit like bees in beds of goldenrods, glorying in the fresh cool beauty and charm of the bog and meadow heathworts, grasses, carices, ferns, mosses, liverworts displayed in boundless profusion. - John Muir, The Calypso Borealis Which words are negative? Which words are positive? What do you see in your mind when you read this passage?

11. Connotation After earning a few dollars working on my brother-in law's farm near Portage [Wisconsin], I set off on the first of my long lonely excursions, botanising in glorious freedom around the Great Lakes and wandering through innumerable tamarac and arbor-vitae swamps, and forests of maple, basswood, ash, elm, balsam, fir, pine, spruce, hemlock, rejoicing in their bound wealth and strength and beauty, climbing the trees, revelling in their flowers and fruit like bees in beds of goldenrods, glorying in the fresh cool beauty and charm of the bog and meadow heathworts, grasses, carices, ferns, mosses, liverworts displayed in boundless profusion. - John Muir, The Calypso Borealis Based on the passage, how would you describe how the author feels? What specific words and details support your opinion?

12. Check In! Comprehension Check Smiley Face = “I got this!” Frowny Face = “One more time, please.”

13. Tone Tone – is the writer’s attitude about the subject. In order to fully understand the text, you must determine and understand tone.

14. Identifying Tone “How long I sat beside Calypso I don't know. Hunger and weariness vanished, and only after the sun was low in the west I splashed on through the swamp, strong and exhilarated as if never more to feel any mortal care.” - John Muir, The Calypso Borealis What is the tone of this passage? What textual evidence (examples of diction, connotation, and syntax ) can you use to support your opinion?

15. Watch This: Identifying Tone "When the bombs went off, there were four of us caught up by Market Street. For whatever reason, the DHS decided that made us suspicious. They put bags over our heads, put us on a ship and interrogated us for days. They humiliated us. Played games with our minds. Then they let us go.”

16. What difference in tone would you hear in each of the pictures below if each person were saying, “I can’t believe you just did that”? The same words can convey different messages 3) 2) 1)

17. Shifts in Tone The author’s tone does not always stay the same in an excerpt. The author’s tone can shift or change. Example: “Star Wars, Episode I is one of the worst movies. Jar JarBinks is a ridiculous character that could have destroyed the Star Wars franchise. However, Episode I brought more depth to the Star Wars universe with much needed background information. It gave us a deeper look into how Darth Vadar became himself. Author’s tone begins being aggressive and attacking. Shift in the author’s tone Author’s tone shifts at the end to being appreciative and supportive

18. I am going to stand up and say students should not complete homework! It is a waste of time and we should be completing school work only at school. But this task of homework is to increase our knowledge. All of our teachers should know we will diligently be completing all tasks in a timely manner. The bolded sentence in the selection above signifies a shift in tone. What is the speaker’s tone before the shift and after the shift?

19. “There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again. But why, some say, the moon?Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?” • The tone of this paragraph shifts at the underlined sentence. • What is the tone before the shift? • What is the tone after the shift?

20. Check In! Comprehension Check Smiley Face = “I got this!” Frowny Face = “One more time, please.”

21. Mood Writers create the atmosphere, or mood, with the words they choose. Writers choose specific words tocreatefeelings in their readers. What is the mood that is set in this scene from The Little Mermaid?

22. Determine the Mood “I crept up to my room and opened the door. I hadn't seen my old bed in what felt like a thousand years. I lay down on it and reached over to my bed stand to grab my laptop. I must have not plugged it in all the way—the electrical adapter needed to be jiggled just right—so it had slowly discharged while I was away. I plugged it back in and gave it a minute or two to charge up before trying to power it up again. I used the time to get undressed and throw my clothes in the trash—I never wanted to see them again—and put on a clean pair of pants and a fresh t-shirt. The fresh-laundered clothes, straight out of my drawers, felt so familiar and comfortable, like getting hugged by my parents.” -Little Brother by Cory Doctorow What is the mood in this excerpt?

23. http://safeshare.tv/w/RGPJmkkDJG • What is the difference between the mood at the beginning and middle of the video? • What is the difference between the chef’s tone at the beginning and middle of the video? • Does the chef use negative or positive connotation?

24. Save The Presentation • Save these whiteboard screens as PDF files. • Go to File, Save, Whiteboard. • Select “All Pages” • Select Files of type: Whiteboard PDF. • Pay attention to where you saved this file.

25. Collaboration Credit If you are here for collaboration, there is one more step! We are now taking the attendance

26. Collaboration Assignment Collaboration Assignment Save it somewhere safe! When you see this box, click “yes”. • Submit your Collaboration Assignment HERE. • If you are segment 1- submit it for segment 1. • If you are segment 2- submit it for segment2.

27. COLLABORATION ASSIGNMENT Read the following excerpt and respond to EACH of the 4 questions below. *Also, please include the date and name of today’s session.

28. COLLABORATION ASSIGNMENT Read the following excerpt and respond to EACH of the 4 questions below. *Also, please include the date and name of today’s session. • I guess it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say wait. But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate filled policemen curse, kick, brutalize, and even kill your black brothers and sisters with impunity ; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an air-tight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her little eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see the depressing clouds of inferiority begin to form in her little mental sky, and see her begin to distort her little personality by unconsciously developing a bitterness toward white people …—then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into an abyss of injustice where they experience the bleakness of corroding despair. I hope, sirs, you can understand our legitimate and unavoidable impatience. • -Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr. • What is the mood of the excerpt? • What is the author’s tone of the excerpt? • Which words in the excerpt have a negative connotation? • Which words in the excerpt have a positive connotation?

29. Collaboration Reflection Save it somewhere safe! When you see this box, click “yes”. • Submit your Collaboration Reflection HERE. • If you are segment 1- submit it for segment 1. • If you are segment 2- submit it for segment2.

30. Questions? Thank you for attending today’s lesson!