On Friday in class we started talking about tone in writing. How tone can affect the reader's understanding of the subject. Although, the very first thing we did in class on friday was deciding if the two sentences on the board meant the same thing. The sentences on the board were referring to an actor in the movie, The Breakfast Club. The sentence was almost the same except one thing was different, the use of the word jock verses the term student athlete. The class decided that these two sentences were different because of the difference in connotation. We then defined two words which were Connotation and Denotation. Connotation is what the certain word implies, and Denotation is the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests. The next thing we did in class was talk about tone and how it affects a piece of text. The text we used to improve determining the tone was from Rip Van Winkle. Each group found a tone in the text and was able to back it up with evidence from the text. Example, In the text Rip Van Winkle the tone is appreciative of the Adirondacks. And we know this from the text because the author used words like “magical hues”
Also, the #10: What Romantic themes does this text support about America? is not homework! Mr. Rivers said we will be doing that on Monday. What we worked on in class relates to the outsider world, because when reading articles or documents it’s important to understand what the author’s feelings toward something is. If you can find the tone of the text than you will understand if the author has a certain bias to what they are staying. To pull outside information on what we did in class Tone “is the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing or even a situation” (google dictionary). https://www.google.com/search?q=tone%20definition&rlz=1CAHPZV_enUS762US762&oq=tone%20de&aqs=chrome.0.0l2j69i57j0l3.4916j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&safe=active&ssui=on
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