Objective: I can determine the tone and mood of “American Tune” by defining each term and analyzing how the feelings of the author are different than the feelings of the reader.
BW: Students will read the definition “What is tone?” from the handout. Students will write down in their notebooks the definition of “tone” and the definition of “mood.”
Activities:
- While listening to “Country Roads,” each student will write down one word that describes her/his feeling or the mood of the song.
- Share Out: What is the word?
- Students will read the 1st Stanza of “American Tune.” Which lines seem to establish a mood or feeling created in the reader by the narration? Which ones appear to be the author talking to himself or advising the narrator? What appears to be the purpose of repeated lines in the poem?
- Think Pair/Share: Write down a word that describes how the reader feels from the narration in the list of “mood” words. Write down a word that describes the author’s attitude or feeling about the subject of the disappearing American dream.
- Share Out: What is the mood of “American Tune”? What is the tone?
- Read aloud and review concepts on the “LA Common Final Instruction Guide.”
- Think Pair/Share: What is the mood, tone, and theme of “Country Roads.”