ELA-Author-Tone-IT

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> Explains the important role words and tone play in literature, with examples of different tones and the meaning they bring to each piece and information on how words and tone help readers gain a sense of place in a story.
 * //Setting the Style: Wording and Tone//**.** Valerie Bodden. Creative Education, 2009. ISBN 978-1-58341-625-9

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 * //"The Sahara of the Bozart,"// H.L. Mencken. Essay. [] 24 June 2009. The tone is one of demeaning intellectual inferiority toward the South. Students can react to how thiongs have changed since its publication in 1917.
 * //"Learning to See,"// Eudora Welty. Essay from //One Writer's Beginnings// by Eudora Welty. ISBN: 0674639278. Welty infuses her real family the value of seeing, developing a tone of learning the author's craft throuhg observation those those things that one knows and adds to that self knowledge in a most lasting way.
 * //"A Long Overdue Apology"// Edward Wong with a letter received and published following the article in Tales from The Times: Real-Life Stories to Make You Think, Wonder, and Smile from the Pages of The New York Times, edited by Lisa Belkin. ISBN: 0312312334. Tones in the story/essay run from disappointment, rancor, to redemption. The additional letter to the sports editor adds a tone of vindication and heartwarming, human forgiveness.
 * //"Springfield Hypocrisy"// by Jason Holt appears in The Simpsons and Philisophy: The D'oh! of Homer edited by William Irwin, Mack T. Conrad, and Aeon Skoble. ISBN: 0812694333. Students might need a little explanation to get the tone of satire of modern culture from Ayn Rand to Huckleberry Finn and Oscar Schindler.
 * //"Deviations: The Normal, the Paranormal, and Edgar Cayce"// // by Michael Shermer, from Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer. ISBN: 0716730901. A tone of skepticism is tempered by the opinions of true believers. Descriptions of architecture lend a tone of the improbable. //