Creative Writing Workshop: Tone Mini Lesson

Creative Writing Workshop: Tone Mini Lesson

This resource is a comprehensive teaching aid for grades 9 through 12. It aims to help students recognize, analyze, and use tone in their writing effectively.

• It introduces the concept of tone with an engaging slideshow.
• The course features hands-on activities that allow students to examine word choices and tonal shifts in various poems.
• Beyond recognition, it enables creation - students can choose from a variety of situations and words to produce their own tonally-influenced pieces.
• Inclusion of clear explanations on the difference between tone vs mood occurs –a common point confusion among learners

The plan offers flexibility suitable for both classroom sessions and home schooling scenarios. The teachers are free to spread the lessons over multiple days or allocate them as homework tasks if they prefer.

• An uneditable zip folder containing PowerPoint presentations and PDF files with all necessary data. This includes lesson implementation suggestions as well as an answer key.

Suggested lesson plan

Tone PowerPoint

Tone Practice Worksheet

Tone Writing Worksheet

20 Strips (10 neutral situations, 10 tone words)