Week 3: Lesson 1

Duration: 1 day
Subject: English Language Arts
Unit: The Canterbury Tales
Grade Level: 12

Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2
Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their
development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on
one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the
text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.3
Analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate
elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered,
how the characters are introduced and developed).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.1
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says
explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where
the text leaves matters uncertain.

Lesson Objectives:
Students will be able to define the terms tone and mood
Students will identify the tone and mood of specific passages in The Millers Tale.
Anticipatory Set:
Instruct students to take out their iPads and open their iDo Notepad app to record
journal #7. Project the following prompt for students to respond to:
Think about the major events that took place in The Millers Tale. What is
Chaucers argument regarding the peasantry or common people of the time? Make a
claim and support your claim with quotations from the text.
After students have completed their journal entry, invite them to share their
responses with the class.
Input:
1. Hand out the Tone and Mood Words handout and instruct students to open
the Notability app on their iPad in preparation to take notes.
2. Use the Tone vs. Mood Prezi, with embedded videos, to present a short
lecture on recognizing the tone and mood in a piece of literature. Instruct
students to take notes throughout the lecture. As you encounter the
embedded videos, have students practice identifying the tone and mood in
each. Instruct students to make use of their tone and mood words as they
evaluate the tone and mood in each video.
Lecture Notes:

*The main objective of this discussion and presentation is for students to
understand the different between the tone and mood, and the vocabulary
that should be used to describe each term.
Circle 1: What is Tone?
-The Attitude of the speaker or author toward the subject
-Tone is expressed by the author through diction, phrasing, and sentence
structure.
-Ask yourself: How is the author talking about the subject?
Circle 2: What is Mood?
-Mood is the emotion evoked in the reader by the presentation of the subject
(tone).
-Mood is created by the authors tone, theme, setting, and voice.
Videos
-After each video ask students to consider how the tone of the director
(presentation) changes the mood.
Circle 3: Why is it important to recognize the tone and mood?
-These devices help us discover the authors message.
-These devices also reveal the writing style of the author.

3. After concluding the lecture on tone and mood, instruct students to open
their copy of The Canterbury Tales to The Millers Tale. Have students
reread the first three pages in order to identify the tone and mood of the first
few sections.
4. Once students have identified the tone and mood of the first few sections of
The Millers Tale, have them find a partner and compare answers.
5. Once students have had an adequate amount of time to share with a partner,
invite students to participate in a brief whole class discussion.
Homework:
For Homework, students will read and annotate The Pardoners Prologue and
The Pardoners Tale.
Supplies:
Computer
Projector
iPad (each student will need one)
iDo Notepad app
Tone and Mood Words Handout
Tone vs. Mood Prezi
The Canterbury Tales (each student will need a copy)