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Dont Take That Tone With Me!
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Tone a guide to the literary element
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Tone Sweet Tone
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Tonenot THIS literary element again!
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Tone, you already know it!
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Tone

• Its not WHAT we say, its how we say it!

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From Netmatters.com (a blog about all thing
Internet savvy)

• When it comes to your e-mails you dont have the
  tone of your voice so those on the other side
  of the screen will read tone into your e-mail
  based on the efforts you make, the formatting you
  integrate and the words you choose to use.

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Real Life Example

• A job candidate came into town to interview for a
  faculty position. The faculty member responsible
  for organizing a meet-and-greet dinner sent
  around an e-mail invitation that read "talking to
  the candidate is not required just don't
  embarrass us.

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Heres Another

• Betty, hi,
• I haven't been successful reaching you by phone,
  so I'll try e-mail instead.

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Lets Do It!

• Fold your paper like a hotdog and then like a
  hamburger so you create quadrants on your page
• Open up the quadrants and pick 4 tone words from
  your list (the more different they are, the
  better). Put the one tone word at the top of each
  quadrant.

Caustic
Reflective
Compassionate
Worried
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Be Dear Abby!

• In each of the quadrants you are going to reply
  to a Dear Abby question.
• Take on the tone of that quadrant, giving advice
  to the exact same answer, but with a different
  tone

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EXAMPLE

• Dear Abby/Andy,
• Im trying to decide what elective to take in
  high school. My parents think I should do Spanish
  because it will be useful, but I really want to
  do art because I like it. Weve agreed to go with
  whatever decision you make. So what do you think?
• - electing to do with your decision

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Caustic, Reflective, Compassionate, or Worried?

• Dear Elect,
• I remember when I was your age, I too had a
  passion, a dream I wished to follow. My parents
  wanted me to join band, but my heart lay in the
  world of theater. How I wished to grace the
  stage! To this day, playing the tuba has never
  satisfied me. I say follow your dreams and become
  an artist!
• Your dramatically,
• Abby

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Caustic, Reflective, Compassionate, or Worried?

• Dear Elect,
• You do realize there are children starving in the
  Africa, right? Get over your boo hooing and just
  pick the foreign language so that way you can
  learn to whine in 23 other countries.
• Adios,
• Abby

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Caustic, Reflective, Compassionate, or Worried?

• Dear Elect,
• I know high school decision making can be very
  stressful, and I hope you end up being happy no
  matter what you do! Your parents have put you in
  a tight spot, but they only want what is best for
  you. Before you pull out your hair, I would
  suggest writing out a four year game plan with
  art as your elective. If you can show your
  parents there will be plenty of room in your
  schedule for Spanish later, Im sure they will
  see your choice is a reasonable one.
• Yours planningly,
• Abby

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Now you try!

• Dear Abby/Andy,
• My best friend in the whole world is going to a
  different high school next year. She says well
  be BFFs, but Im afraid not seeing her every day
  will make our friendship fade. How to I prevent
  this from happening?
• -Missing my friend already

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Now see how good you are!

• Get into groups of three.
• Read one of your quadrants. See if your group
  members can figure out the tone (tone words that
  are synonyms count! Ex. If your tone word is
  enraged and a group member says angry they
  get a point!)
• If they cant figure it out, tell them the four
  tone words you used.
• Take turns rotating who read a quadrant.
• Scoring 1 point if you guess the tone of the
  response. 1 point if someone can figure out your
  tone without needing the four tone words.