ELA-Author-Tone-AR

Author's Craft - Tone - Nonprint - Audiovisual Resources
> (30:00) By examining descriptive words and how they convey basic ideas, introduce young students to the stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing. All content is tied to national standards and benchmarks.
 * K-2**
 * //Style, Structure & Tone// (Discovering Language Arts) Discovery Channel School ([|ETV Streamline])

> (4:58) This segment presents the movie Dracula, and explains how music, effects, and narration can manipulate the mood of a movie. A follow up activity suggests that students identify mood enhancing elements in a movie > (21:30) From descriptive language to the variety of sentence structures to the elements within a paragraph, introduce elementary students to the stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing. All content is tied to national standards and benchmarks.
 * 3-5**
 * //Manipulating Mood: Dracula// (Discovering Language Arts: Viewing) Discovery Channel School ([|ETV Streamline])
 * //Style, Structure & Tone// (Discovering Language Arts) Discovery Channel School ([|ETV Streamline])

> (23:15) From figurative language and imagery to variations on sentence and paragraph structure, introduce middle school students to the stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing.
 * 6-8**
 * //Style, Structure & Tone// (Discovering Language Arts) Discovery Channel School ([|ETV Streamline])

(50:44) This comprehensive video collection uses high-quality documentary footage to examine high-school-level writing, reading, grammar, listening and speaking skills, and media literacy skills. Explore the structure of written material and the many ways to incorporate figurative language. Learn how to communicate to a particular audience, and how an author's choice of narrator affects the text.
 * E1-E4 //(need to add explanatory sentences and additional sources)//**
 * //Style, Structure & Tone// (Discovering Language Arts) Discovery Channel School **//([|ETV Streamline])//**
 * //"Mary Poppins Trailer,"// 1964. The original "Mary Poppins" [|theatrical trailer can be viewed here] (4:14). This trailer evinces images of magic for happiness sake. The characters delight in flying, dancing, and other merrymaking.
 * //[|Smoke Signals,]// 1998 film, based on parts of //The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven// by Sherman Alexie. Provides tones of friendship and loyalty and a desire to "set things straight."
 * //Pride and Prejudice// by Jane Austin. [| Five Theatrical Trailers] provide the tone of romance in another era with a surprisingly up--to-date feel for mofdern romance. Using the entire DVD evinces the emotions of darkness, near misses, and sibling rivalry along with class distinctions of another era that can be compared to our own.