Holocaust Unit Review

What is tone?

• the reason an author writes

• the lesson to be learned from the story or text

• the author's attitude toward the topic they are writing about

• the feeling a reader gets from reading

What can help readers infer an author's tone?

• plot

• word choice

• theme

• characterization

What can help a reader identify the topic of a text?

• the title and key pasages/sentences

• the author's name

• the source/publication

• connotation

What does connotation mean?

• the feelings behind words or phrases

• a lesson or insight about life learned from the text

• an author's reason for writing

• the author's attitude toward whatever they are writing about

Read the sentence: "I was super late to work today." What connotation does the word "late" have in this sentence?

• positive

• negative

• neutral

• It has no connotation.

Read the sentence: "Thank goodness the pharmacy is open late." What connotation does the word "late" have in this sentence?

• positive

• negative

• neutral

• It has no connotation.

Before identifying tone, always remind yourself of...

• the theme

• the topic and specific word choices

• the author's purpose

• PIE

What does the R in RACE stand for?

• restart the question

• restate the question

• review the question

• remember the question

What does the A in RACE stand for?

• allow the question

• alter the question

• answer the question

• analyze the question

What does the C in RACE stand for?

• cite evidence from the text

• color evidence

• cancel evidence

• circle the evidence