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Literacy Lesson 4
Creating mood through setting and sound
Introduction
Watch the video below for an introduction to the lesson.
Understanding the tasks
Rating the tasks
This lesson contains a few activities. Each activity will have one or more tasks. These tasks have been given a rating.
Some of the tasks in this lesson are must do. These are important to help you understand the introductory ideas or skills.
Have a go at the should do tasks and reach out to your friends or teacher if you need some advice. These will usually take a bit longer to complete than must do tasks.
Could do tasks will probably take you some extra time and might need you to get creative or problem solve. We strongly encourage you to try these.
Activity 1 - Mood and setting
Task 1 - What is mood?
Complete the interactive presentation to learn how to identify mood in texts.
Task 2 - How is mood created through setting?
Complete the interactive presentation to learn how to create mood through choices related to setting.
Note: On the last slide, make sure you use the blue Export text button to create a Word document containing all your written answers so you can share your work with your teacher.
Task 3 - Silent City
Watch the 2D animation 'Silent City'.
Complete the Google slides template to analyse how mood is created through setting choices.
Click on the button above to open a new tab and view the Google Slides.
Click on the Use Template button to create a copy for you to edit.
Activity 2 - Mood and sound
Task 1 - How is mood created through sound?
Complete the interactive presentation to learn how sound creates mood in texts.
Answer each question in Part 1.
Use the 'export text' button at the end of Part 1 to save your answers to share with your teacher.
Use the large blue arrows in the top or bottom right-hand corner to view and analyse the case study.
Note: On the last slide, make sure you use the blue Export text button to create a Word document containing all your written answers so you can share your work with your teacher.
Task 2 - Metalanguage for describing music
Complete the interactive presentation to build your understanding of how to describe music.
Task 3 - Music and mood
Complete the interactive presentation to apply your understanding of musical metalanguage.
Handing in your work
Don't forget to hand in the work you completed today!
Your teacher will have told you to do one of the following:
Upload any digital documents you created and any photos you took of your written work to your Learning Management system (MS Teams, Google Classroom for example).
Email any digital documents you created and any photos you took of your written work to your teacher.
Make sure you keep any handwritten work you did in your exercise book or folder as your teacher may need to see these when you are back in class.