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=Today's Learning Goal:=
 * Define TONE.
 * Identify the tone of a text and explain the text details that create the tone.

**Word Study: Deferred**

Mini-Lesson: What Text Elements Reveal Tone? media type="custom" key="6997239" align="right"

 * What is tone?
 * Watch three videos: record details and tone in graphic organizer.
 * What elements show the tone?
 * How is this different from a print text? What elements in a print text indicate the tone?
 * Whole Class: Read Langston Hughe's poem, //A Dream Deferred.//
 * //Add words and tones to your graphic organizer.//
 * //What's the tone?//
 * Small Groups: Read Billy Collin's Introduction to Poetry.
 * Create a Wordle and draft a paragraph explaining the tone. Publish it to your group's wiki page.
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**Independent Reading**

 * Display your **reading log** on your mini screen and ready your **Writer's Notebook.** I'll be coming around to check both of them.
 * Read and journal.
 * Pay attention to the author's tone.

Introduction to Poetry

The title of this poem looks like it would be in a college text book. It seems like there would be difficult poems in this book. The poems might be hard to understand or have a deep meaning to them. `In this poem, the teacher asks the students to take out a poem and hold it up to the light like a color side. The meaning out of this sentence is that the teacher's are trying to get the students to understand a deeper meaning to the poem. In the text, they begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means. The students are trying to over analyze the poem and are trying to figure out the true meaning that comes out of it. The tone of the poem is that the students are confused and aggrivated. The students are trying to beat the meaning out of it.