Teaching Tone and Mood in Literature - 5 Basic Steps to Consider

Teaching tone and mood in literature can be an interesting task for those who love to teach literature. The main focus is be on identifying the tone and mood in major literary works which can be a crucial step towards helping the students enjoy, analyze, and do their own creative writing.

Tone is nothing but the narrative voice, or something by which the story is told or narrated. It is often used for conveying mood, or feelings or emotions threading throughout a piece of literature. Simply we can put that tone is the technique whereas mood is the result attained by the technique. In other words, both go side by side!

Where will you learn tone and mood from? There are several lesson plans are available online that can help you understand and teach tone and mood. If you explore the internet, you will see that horror or fantastic literature are some of the areas where tone and mood are the most obvious. You can also choose creative techniques like art and activities that can help you understand these two concepts.

Basic Step to Consider for Teaching Tone and Mood:

The internet is one of the best resources available for creating your own lesson plan. There are certain basic steps and tips you can consider when it comes to preparing your own lesson plan focusing on teaching tone and mood in literature:

1. The best thing is to choose a work of literature in which tone and mood are obvious and for that reason most teachers opt for fantastic literature, for example the works of Poe and Shirley Jackson.

2. You need to make it easier for students to understand tone and mood and nothing better than introducing the theme with the help of music or certain visual arts just such painting.

3. It will be very effective if you create a list of words something like "feeling words." Students can easily pick up a word from the list to affix a feeling work label to literature, music or any sort of work of art.

4. As you complete your discussions regarding the tone and mood of different works of literature or art that you have chosen ask your students to create their own narrative or poem conveying a particular tone or mood.

5. Feedback is a fine idea that lets you realize whether your students have truly understood the concept or not. Students will not be in a position to reflect the concept of tone or mood in their creative act unless they really understand.

However, you may find some students for whom mood and tone may be difficult to understand. In such cases, computer-based activities can help the students recognize the emotional 'cues' which are associated with feeling words.

Rakesh Patel is an aspiring poet, freelance writer, self-published author and teacher. Read his blogs about types of poetry, and English literature.

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