The questions in this attached questionnaire are the things I want to discuss in the one-on-one writing conferences we'll start this semester with. I want you to think about your answers ahead of time so we can have the most productive conversation possible! Fill it out and bring it with you to your appointed conference time!

Practice identifying imagery and tone!

Read the passage below. Then answer the imagery and tone questions about it in the padlet below!

"It is time for the baby’s birthday party: a white cake, strawberry-marshmallow ice cream, a bottle of champagne saved from another party. In the evening, after she has gone to sleep, I kneel beside the crib and touch her face, where it is pressed against the slats, with mine. She is an open and trusting child, unprepared for and unaccustomed to the ambushes of family life, and perhaps it is just as well that I can offer her little of that life. I would like to give her more. I would like to promise her that she will grow up with a sense of her cousins and of rivers and of her great-grandmother’s teacups, would like to pledge her a picnic on a river with fried chicken and her hair uncombed, would like to give her home for her birthday, but we live differently now and I can promise her nothing like that. I give her a xylophone and a sundress from Madeira, and promise to tell her a funny story."

-Joan Didion

Now that you have the hang of it - look at the sample passage attached below. Identify important power words, images, and tones in the passage. Then, write an analysis paragraph explaining how the imagery and tone shows an important subconscious message in the passage! There's a paragraph template in google classroom!