To increase the ease with which you recognize the wide range of tones an author may adopt for his/her writing, please complete the following project. The more effort you and your classmates exert, the more you all will get out of the assignment, not only in your grade, but in actually being able to recognize tone.
Directions:
Point Value (each page will be graded separately; incomplete work will be given two zeroes):
Illustration page
Properly conveys the tone: up to 50 points
Uses space effectively: up to 25 points
Clear effort: up to 10 points
Extreme effort: up to 15 points. (11-25 total)
Definition page
1.: up to 10 points
2.: up to 15 points
3.: up to 20 points
4.: up to 20 points
5.: up to 25 points
presentation: up to 10 points
(Illustrated pages that “look like” someone else’s pages will give you half of the points earned)
Due Date: Tuesday, August 30.
Directions:
- Select a tone word from the vocabulary list. Each word can only be used once per class. The earlier you choose, the more likely you will get the word you want. If you cannot choose a word in a timely manner, a word will be chosen for you. You’re welcome.
- Clearly depict the tone word in an illustration (a picture). If your tone word is furious, write the word “furiously” rather than drawing a picture of a furious person, animal, sentient vegetable, zombie, emoji, etc.
- On a totally separate piece of paper:
- Write your tone word;
- The pronunciation key for the word (e.g., /ˈfyo͝orēəs/ )* ;
- The etymology (word origin) for the word—be thorough; include the peak usage of the word (e.g., Latin: furia (fury); peak usage c. 1800)* ;
- Write the definition from the vocabulary list (or an alternate definition if the alternate definition is more clear than the given one);
- Write a sentence demonstrating the meaning of the word without using the word itself or a synonym (i.e., if your tone word is furious, write a sentence about someone behaving furiously without using the word or a variation thereof (e.g., fury, furiously, furiousness, angrily, ranting, etc.; show—don’t tell—the fury)).
Point Value (each page will be graded separately; incomplete work will be given two zeroes):
Illustration page
Properly conveys the tone: up to 50 points
Uses space effectively: up to 25 points
Clear effort: up to 10 points
Extreme effort: up to 15 points. (11-25 total)
Definition page
1.: up to 10 points
2.: up to 15 points
3.: up to 20 points
4.: up to 20 points
5.: up to 25 points
presentation: up to 10 points
(Illustrated pages that “look like” someone else’s pages will give you half of the points earned)
Due Date: Tuesday, August 30.