Tone

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.6

Analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony) create such effects as suspense or humor.

Lesson 1: What is Tone? Point of View?

Booktracks and HP Lovecraft's The Old Man

Lesson 2: How do we know it? How does it affect the story?

Bierce's Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Chickamauga

Lesson 3: How does tone affect poetry?

Dickinson's Hope, A Coffin, Because I Could Not Stop for Death

Lesson 4: Test

Lesson 5: Creation

Booktracks