1. TOne
Gabrielle Winters

2. a quality, feeling, or attitude expressed by the words that someone uses in speaking or writing
The School by Donald Barthelme: “I don’t know why they died, they just died. Something wrong with the soil possibly or maybe the stuff we got from the nursery wasn’t the best.” from
Charlotte’s Web: “Nothing can harm you now. These autumn days will shorten and grow cold. The leaves will shake loose from the trees and fall. Christmas will come, and the snows of winter. From: story.html#MKPuWd1Rv0BXKQqX.99

3. -The lady walked leisurely through the park.
-The lady quickly stomped through the park.

4. How is the second sentence different from the first?
What changed?
What feeling does each sentence give you?
What tone words do you notice?
What is the tone of each sentence?

5. Use your tone words handout to fill in the blanks
The dog barked at the squirrel (fill in a tone word [verb] here) outside the door.
The lady thought the dog was barking at her and (fill in a tone word [verb] here).

6. What feeling does each sentence give you?
What tone words do you notice?
What is the tone of each sentence?
How is each example different from the other?
What changed?
What feeling does each example give you?

7. Help me Revise these sentences
The dog barked at the squirrel.
The woman went to visit her friend.
The student freaked out about their homework assignment.

8. Revise these sentences in your groups
Ms. Winters taught the lesson.
The principle punished the student for being bad.
My mom called me to talk about her yoga class.

9. Exit Question:
Define tone &/or write sentence with a specific tone and identify what tone used