Tone and Mood

Memoir Writing
DONE is better than PERFECT...always remember that!

H/W - Compulsory
Homebase - Make sure you bring in your CWW packed travel gear for tomorrow.

 Watch this video to help you practice tone and mood.

Optional: Test your parents - Ask them to item the 'tone' of this piece then ask them to discuss the
 'mood'

As you read, you will notice the tone and mood shift from chapter to chapter or character to character.  Great readers track how they feel as they read noting times when their emotions change or the tone of the text changes.

Reminders:

Hand in a printed copy of your first memoir tomorrow
Subjects and Predicates Test: Turn in your completed booklet for a grammar grade

Memoirs

Great effort today on your memoir drafts. Final draft for this piece is due Friday. Please bring a PRINTED copy.

Subjects and Predicates Test is Friday. Look on earlier blog posts for links to practice exercises.

Have you checked out enough books to cover next week? Remember there is no school on Thursday or Friday.

Have a nice evening!

Character Unit: Push yourself with your literature choices

Drafts of your first memoir piece is due tomorrow. It does not need to be finished, but you should be have a clear direction of where you are going and how you are going to get there.

Subjects and predicates package: Due Fri.
Subjects and Predicate assessment: Fri.

Readers
Make sure you have visited the library and have two books to cover the week of CWW and Teacher PD Days.

After CWW - Character Book Clubs

Teaching - Learning - Change

Today was tough for many of you. Another way to look at today's lesson is simply to answer these three questions.

Have you taught the reader something about the topic (teaching) - This is the anecdote
Have you showed that you learned something about yourself (learning) - Reflection
Have you showed the reader that you have changed in some way (Change) - Further reflection

If you are confused - write your story. After you have finished, see if you  have included the above aspects in your paper.

Show RESILIENCE - Try hard..then a little harder...

Characteristics to include in your piece

• Use everything that you know about small moment narratives
• Include 'times shifts' - (would +verb or had+participle)
• Reflect on others feeling not just your own
• Teach the reader something about you; show that the story taught you something; show that you are somehow different or changed because of the story

Write your 3 headlines: It should be 1-2mins long and contain advanced subjects and predicates


subjects and predicates from Russell Buxton on Vimeo.

Characteristics of Memoir

Characteristics of Memoir