Active Engagement: Today we will learn how to analyze the author’s tone in a passage from Ch. 1 and 2 of Bud, Not Buddy. We will use the: Analyzing Word Choice Anchor Chart
Modeled Instruction: Students will follow along with the teacher to read practice Passage 1 & 2 and begin the work of
analysis by following the steps in the anchor chart:
Guided Practice: Students will work with their partners to read page 3, paragraph 2 and begin the work of analysis with a partner following the steps in the anchor chart:
EXIT TICKET:
I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand —
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep — while I weep!
O God! Can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
What tone is created by the phrase "surf-tormented shore” in line 2 of this stanza?
A. restless worry
B. heated anger
C. intense happiness
D. moderate confusion