Practice with Tone and Mood

Here are two helpful resources to practice understanding and identifying Tone and Mood in a text.

Tone and Mood Handout

Practice Identifying Tone and Mood Worksheet

Spirit week reminder!!!

Understanding Voice, Tone, and Mood in Taylor Swift's "Safe and Sound" (Ft. The Civil Wars)

It's always a good idea to refresh ourselves on the lesson from the previous day:

Lyrics are some of the best examples of texts to use to analyze voice, tone, and mood.

Here we looked at Taylor Swift's "Safe and Sound" and came up with two different interpretations of the meaning of the song as we compared and contrasted reading the lyrics to watching the music video/listening to the song out loud.

Voice, Tone, and Mood

To see the PowerPoint presentation on Voice, Tone, and Mood click here



Sometimes all it takes is changing a few details to completely alter the stories you know and love.

Come meet us!

During the speech presentations, you will be expected to provide constructive, positive feedback to your classmates. The forum for this feedback will be "Today's Meet."

Click here to join our "Today's Meet" chatroom!

Your name should be YOUR OWN NAME. Otherwise, we will be unable to give you a grade for participation in the discussion.

Meet Ms. Brody!

Hello families and friends of the Indigo team,

     My name is Stephanie Brody and I am a student teacher from the University of 

New Haven working alongside Mrs. DeGray and her classes this Spring! For the 

past three weeks I have had the pleasure of working with and getting to know 

your children and hopefully they've mentioned something about me joining the 

classroom, but I wanted to personally introduce myself and allow you to get to 

know me a bit.

     Before attending UNH, I earned my undergraduate degree from Central 

Connecticut State University in 2014, studying English with a concentration in 

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. Most recently I graduated 

from the University of New Haven with my Master's degree in Secondary 

Education for English/Language Arts. Now I am in the final phase of my graduate 

program as a student teacher, and I cannot even begin to express how lucky I 

feel to be working with the incredible students and staff at SDMS. Everyone has 

been so welcoming and made me feel right at home. 

     Working with children has always been a huge part of my life and I've been very 

fortunate to have had many opportunities to work with children of all different 

ages and ability levels. In the past I have worked as a nanny, camp 

counselor/unit head, after school care teacher, art and swimming instructor, and 

intern at a high school. It wasn't hard for me to decide to pursue a career in 

teaching, because for as long as I can remember I've wanted to help kids realize 

just how valuable their education is and help them use it to become anything they 

want to be. 

     I am very much looking forward to continuing to work with your children for the 

next few months and learn as much as I can from them as they will learn from 

me. I also hope that during my time here I will have the opportunity to meet as 

many of you as possible, so please do not hesitate to contact me at any time. My 

email is sbrody@wethersfield.me.  

     Thank you for taking the time to read up about me, and I look forward to hearing 

from and meeting you all in the future. 

All the best, 

Stephanie Brody

Alas, poor Yorick!

Note-taking reminders!!!

Social Issue Speech

Antithesis: a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect.

See how many examples of antithesis you can spot as you watch the video and listen to the lyrics!

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.”

- Dickens

Grammar/Punctuation Review

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