Mood and How the Character Feels

In many analyses of mood, I often see a bit of a gap in the way mood is proven. As we know, mood (as a literary element) is the reader's emotion/reaction to the text. People often try to explain this by describing the main character's feelings. This may be one of the ways the author creates mood, but if mood is what you are analyzing be sure you explain why the character's feelings have anything to do with mood. You might do this by explaining that the character is the protagonist in the book and the reader is supposed to empathise with him or her. It also helps to try to find an example of how mood is created in descriptions that are not directly related to the emotions of a character.

Short Story Elements: Monday

Class Outline

1. Silent Reading

•  Students who received an email over the weekend should update their blog authors or post their media analysis.

2. Literary Elements Game:

1. Get in 5 equal groups. 
2. Each group member needs an individual rating sheet.
3. Each group will be asked a question, that group has 30 seconds to come up with an answer. If they do not get it right, the first group to have a member raise his or her hand gets to try to steal that point.
4. Once the answer is revealed, find that type of device on your rating sheet and mark off how well you know that concept.
5. At the end of the game, the team with the most points wins a prize. I will collect all rating sheets.

I will use this game and the rating sheets to get a feel for where the class is at. Rating sheets will help me know what you need to work on and what areas we don't need to spend a lot of time on.

3. Work on creative response.