LESSON PLAN IN ENGLISH 10

Learning Competency: EN10LT-IIe-2.2.3: Determine tone, mood, technique, and purpose of the author

I. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson, 90% of the grade 10 students are expected to:
1. define tone and mood
2. write the tone and mood of the literary pieces; and
3. appreciate the importance of tone and mood in the given texts through participation.

II. LEARNING CONTNET

Subject Matter: Literature
Focus: Tone and Mood
Infused Values: participation and gratitude

III. LEARNING MATERIALS

 https://betterlesson.com/lesson/590712/mood-tone
 https://literarydevices.net/mood/
 https://literarydevices.net/tone/

Projector
Laptop
worksheets

IV. LEARNING PROCEDURE

A. Preliminaries

Teacher Students
1. Greetings: “Good morning everyone!” “Good morning sir Pieter”
2. Prayer: “somebody please lead the
prayer.” “Amen”
Checking Attendance: (positive and Non-
Violent Discipline Management)
3. Reminders:
 Maintain cleanliness and Orderliness All students are expected to clean their own
 Refrain from roaming around during area by picking pieces of paper and some other
class activities. (Positive and Non- sort of trash.
Violent Discipline Management)

“How are you today?” “We are good” (Answers will vary.)
“Are you ready for our lesson?” “yes we are!”
“well, very good!”
B. Activity

Motivational Activity

Students will identify the atmosphere and the intent of the artists given from the pictures that will be
presented.

C. Analysis

1. What have you observed so far from the pictures?

2. What did you feel about the pictures?
3. What was the intention of the artists when they created their artworks?
4. Why did you choose those words to describe how you felt about the artworks?
5. How are the tone and mood functioning?

D. Abstraction

Mood is the feeling the reader gets when reading a passage. Mood is the atmosphere the author
creates using descriptive language. To determine the mood think about the setting, actions of the
characters, and language.
 Example:

1. She hesitated, listening for sounds of the creature. The forest seemed empty, but she could
sense something else out there. Something watching and waiting. (:suspenseful mood )
2. There was no moon, and everything beneath lay in misty darkness: not a light gleamed from any
house, far or near all had been extinguished long ago (setting: depressing mood)
3. The river, reflecting the clear blue of the sky, glistened and sparkled as it flowed noiselessly on.
(setting: serene and non-violent mood)

The Road Not Taken (By Robert Frost)

“I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less travelled by,
Function
And thatofhas
mood:
made all the difference.”
(Through tone: unhappy)

Mood helps in creating an atmosphere in a literary work by means of setting, theme, diction, and tone.
It evokes various emotional responses in readers, and thus ensures their emotional attachment to the
literary piece they read. Once the readers are emotionally stirred, they fully comprehend the message
that the writer tries to convey to them.

Tone is how the author feels about what he is talking about. A tone can be serious, sarcastic, wicked,
proud, sympathetic, light-hearted, or hostile.

1. "I will not!" she shouted. "I will not be left at the mercy of our enemies while you slink away!"
(angry)
2. “Can someone tell me what is going on here!? Who locked us in a room?” (aggressive )
3. “They plan to kill General Washington." He leaned forward, his elbows on his knees. "Tell me
everything at once." (serious)

A River Runs Through It By Norman Maclean

“This was the last fish we were ever to see Paul catch. My father and I talked about
this moment several times later, and whatever our other feelings, we always felt it
fitting that, when we saw him catch his last fish, we never saw the fish but only the
artistry of the fisherman.” (loss and nostalgia)
Function of Tone

Tone, in a piece of literature, decides how the readers read a literary piece, and how they should feel
while they are reading it. It stimulates the readers to read a piece of literature as a serious, comical,
spectacular, or distressing manner. In addition, tone lends shape and life to a piece of literature
because it creates a mood. Moreover, tone bestows voice to characters, and throws light on the
personalities and dispositions of characters that readers understand better.

E. Application

IDENTIFYING TONE & MOOD

For each example identify the tone, what context clues are used to convey the tone, and the overall
mood of the sentence.

1. Bouncing into the room, she lit up the vicinity with a joyous glow on her face as she told about her
fiancé and their wedding plans.
Tone: ____________________________________________________________________
Mood: ___________________________________________________________________
Clues: ____________________________________________________________________
2. She huddled in the corner, clutching her tattered (old & torn) blanket and shaking convulsively, as
she feverishly searched the room for the unknown dangers that awaited her
Tone: ____________________________________________________________________
Mood: ___________________________________________________________________
Clues: ____________________________________________________________________
3. Bursting through the door, the flustered mother screamed uncontrollably at the innocent teacher
who gave her child an F.
Tone: ____________________________________________________________________
Mood: ___________________________________________________________________
Clues: ____________________________________________________________________
4. Drawing the attention of his classmates as well as his teacher, the student dared to experiment
with his professor’s intelligence by interrogating him about the Bible.
Tone: ____________________________________________________________________
Mood: ___________________________________________________________________
Clues: ____________________________________________________________________
5. He furtively glanced behind him, for fear of his imagined pursuers, then hurriedly walked on,
jumping at the slightest sound even of a leaf crackling under his own foot.
Tone: ____________________________________________________________________
Mood: ___________________________________________________________________
Clues: ____________________________________________________________________
 V. EVALUATION

1. What is the feeling or atmosphere of a literary piece?

A. Tone
B. Technique
C. Mood
D. Imagery
2. How do authors set the tone?
A. Using strong verbs
B. Involving the reader's senses
C. The choice of setting, details, images, and words
D. Through adjectives
3. What feeling does the author cause you to feel for the victim?
A. Happiness
B. Fear
C. No feeling
D. Sympathy
4. What is the writer’s attitude toward a subject or character?
A. Mood
B. Exposition
C. Characterization
D. Tone
5. What is the tone of the given sentence? “Bursting through the door, the flustered mother
screamed uncontrollably at the innocent teacher who gave her child an F.”
A. Angry
B. Witty
C. Weird
D. Suspicious
6. What is the mood? When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I
had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.
A. Relaxed
B. Terrified
C. Worried
D. Perplexed
7. What is the mood? When the Darkness creeping towards me ,I was shaking in fear of IT.
A. Peculiar
B. Relaxed
C. Terrified
D. Worried
8. Which of the following does NOT create mood in a story?
A. Setting Description
B. Imagination
C. Imagery
D. Character Speech/Feeling
9. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge of the mushroom, and her eyes
immediately met those of a large caterpillar, that was sitting on the top with its arms folded, quietly
smoking a long hookah, and taking not the smallest notice of her or of anything else.”
A. Pity
B. Mysterious
C. Discouragement
D. Gloomy

10. The School by Donalod Bathelme(tone)

“And the trees all died. They were orange trees. I don’t know why they died, they just died. Something
wrong with the soil possibly or maybe the stuff we got from the nursery wasn’t the best. We complained
about it. So we’ve got thirty kids there, each kid had his or her own little tree to plant and we’ve got
these thirty dead trees. All these kids looking at these little brown sticks, it was depressing.”
A. Loss
B. Nostalgia
C. Excited
D. Gloomy

VI. ASSIGNEMNT
(Optional)
What is the tone and mood of this picture? What is the artist is trying to portray? How do you feel about
it i? Explain your answer in 3 – 5 sentences. Write your answer on ½ CW

Prepared by:

LAURENS PIETER JAKOBUS G. NOBELS

Checked by:

MARY JOY S. REMULTA

Cooperating Teacher (CT)