1. Please make sure you are reading when the bell rings.
Independent Reading
Please make sure you are reading when the bell rings.

2. #2 Style Notes /20/14
Writer’s Style: The intentional choices a writer makes in manipulating components of literature (mood, tone, plot, character, setting) as well as their use of:
Diction (word choice)
Syntax (types of sentences)
Figurative Language & Devices

3. Death By Scrabble Let’s read together
Look at your style notes. Try to notice and annotate the diction, syntax, and figurative language choices
Think about how this author’s style is different from “The Star” and “The Wallet.”

4. Tone and Mood Handout. Find a partner.
On your whiteboard, write one word from the handout for the TONE of “Death By Scrabble” and one word for the MOOD.

5. Tone and Mood Erase your board.
Now, write your tone OR mood word at the top of the board.
Under it, write an example of diction, figurative language OR literary device that helped to create that tone or mood.

6. #3 Diction and Syntax 8/20 Diction can be:
Formal: big, fancy words, sounds very educated, scholarly
Standard: regular way of talking
Informal: colloquial, slang, urban
Diction can also be described with a wide variety of adjectives, such as: powerful, precise, poetic, simple, emotional, detached.

7. #3 Diction and Syntax 8/20 HOW TO DESCRIBE SYNTAX
Length of sentences- Is there a variety of lengths or are they all about the same?
Construction of sentence:
Simple: one subject and one verb. The singer bowed to her adoring audience.
Compound: A compound sentence contains two independent clauses joined by a coordinate conjunction (and, but, or) or by a semicolon. The singer bowed to the audience, but she sang no encores.
Complex: A complex sentence contains an independent clause and one or more subordinate clauses. You said that you would tell the truth, but not today.