Detailed LESSON PLAN in ENGLISH

I. Objectives:
A. Content Standards
The learners demonstrate understanding of various linguistics nodes to
comprehend various texts, demonstrate understanding of text types to listen for
different purposes from a variety of texts and demonstrates understanding of
text types to construct feedback.

B. Performance Standards
The learner analyzes text types to effectively understand information/messages,
uses linguistic cues to effectively construct meaning from a variety of text for a
variety of purposes and uses literary and informational texts heard to construct
an appropriate feedback.

C. Learning Competency
EN7LT-IV-e-2.2.3: 
Determine tone, mood, technique, and purpose of the author.
D. Objectives
At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:

a. Define tone, mood, technique, and purpose of the author.

b. Understand the difference between the tone and mood.
c. Appreciate the importance of the lesson through participation.

II. CONTENT
A. General Topic: Literature
B. Specific Topic: Tone, Mood, Technique, and Purpose of the Author

III. LEARNING RESOURCES

A. References

B. Other learning Resources

- Multimedia resources, Internet
- Laptop, PowerPoint Presentation

IV. PROCEDURES
A. Daily Routine
Prayer
Greetings
Classroom Management
Checking of Attendance
Review

B. Priming
Picture This

It was a dark and stormy night. I sat alone in the old, dilapidated house staring out
the window. The sky was black, the wind was loud, and the rain slammed against
the broken windowpanes. I shut my eyes, remembering my earlier visit, and I felt
embarrassed and angry. When I opened them, the lightning bolt flashed and lit up
the room once more. I had to get out of the house; I had to hide. No one could know
my horrible mistake. I opened the door, took a deep breath, and tan into the cold
rain.
Questions:
1. What feelings did you have while listening to the previous story?
2. What made you feel this way?
3. What words did you hear that helped create this feeling?

By answering these questions, you are on your way to defining the mood and
tone. Mood and tone are important because they helped create the meaning
of a story.

C. Activity
The class will be having an activity called “Guess the Mood”. There will be four
examples of mood in literature. The student will read a sentence with the
appropriate mood or emotion. The other students will guess what mood is being
described.

Sentence#1
- But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow’st.    
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,  
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
(“Sonnet 18” by William Shakespeare)
- The mood is feeling of love and sentimentality.

Sentence#2
- For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there by the sea—
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
(“Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allen Poe)
- Tragic story of love and loss

Sentence#3
- They’re trying to kill me,” Yossarian told him calmly.
“No one’s trying to kill you,” Clevinger cried.
“Then why are they shooting at me?” Yossarian asked.
“They’re shooting at everyone,” Clevinger answered. “They’re trying to kill
everyone.”
“And what difference does that make?”
(Catch-22 by Joseph Heller)
- Fear

Sentence#4
- He rolled in his bed, twisting the sheets, grappling with a problem year too big for
him, awake in the night like a single sentinel on picket. And sometime after
midnight, he slept, too, and then only the wind was awake, prying at the hotel and
hooting in its gables under the bright gimlet gaze of the stars.
(The Shining by Stephen King)
- Suspense and tension

D. Analysis
Let the pupils share how they come up with their answers. The pupils will
explain the importance of understanding the speaker’s tone and mood.
Based on the activity we had earlier lets test your knowledge about Mood

1. What is the correct mood definition?

a. The authors attitude toward the subject of the book
b. The emotions that the work of literature provokes in the reader.
c. The way the characters in the book feel about their situation.

2. What is the best word for the mood that the following passage form
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet might inspire in a reader?
JULIET: What’s here? A cup, closed in my true love’s hand?
Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end. —
O churl, drunk all, and left no friendly drop
To help me after? I will kiss thy lips.
Haply some poison yet doth hang on them,
To make me die with a restorative

a) Anger
b) Excitement
c) Sadness
3. Consider the following excerpt from Edgar Allen Poe’s poem “The
Raven”:
 Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore—
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore—
Nameless here for evermore.
What is the best word for the mood that this passage inspires?
a) Somber
b) Jubilant
c) Peaceful

E. Abstraction

AUTHOR
o It is broadly defined as “the person who originated or gave
existence to anything” and whose authorship determines
responsibility for what was created.
o Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work
and can also be described as a writer.
MOOD
o Is what the reader feels while reading a scene or story.
o It is not the reader’s emotion, but the atmosphere (the vibe) of a scene
or story. It’s what the reader reads or feels or notices.
List of moods (atmosphere)

o Suspense
o Lonely
o Happy
o Angry

TONE
o Is the attitude of the narrator or viewpoint character toward story events and other
characters.
o It is achieved through word choice (diction), sentence construction and word order
(syntax), and by what the viewpoint character focuses on.

List of Tone words

o Accusatory: charging of wrongdoing.

o Bitter: exhibiting strong animosity as a result of pain or grief.
o Critical: finding fault
o Earnest: intense, a sincere state of mind
o Intimate: very familiar

The way someone voices a statement or the words an author chooses influences
the tone.

Examples:
“Don’t use that tone of voice with me!”
“What are your plans for today”, my mother asked.

Remember: Author uses tone to create a mood.

TECHNIQUE
o The authors technique in which an individual author uses in his writing. It varies
form author to author and depends upon tones syntax, word choice, and tone.
o There are four basic literary styles used in writing. The styles distinguish the work
of different authors form one another.

1.

2.
3.

4.

PURPOSE
o The author’s purpose is his/her reason for writing. There are three main purposes
for writing. (To entertain, inform and persuade).
o An author’s purpose is reflected in the way he writes about a topic.

 To inform
The primary purpose of texts that are written to inform is to enlighten the reader or
provide the reader with information about the topic.

Examples of text that are written to inform:

 Expository essays or Articles
 Instructions or Directions
 Encyclopedias or other Reference Texts

 To entertain
The primary purpose of texts that are written to entertain is to amuse readers. This
does not mean that the text must be happy, the text could be tragedy, but the main
reason for writing the text is to amuse the readers.

Examples of text that are written to entertain:

 Stories
 Poems
 Dramas
 Songs

 To persuade
In a text that is written to persuade, the author’s primary purpose is to compel
readers to act, convince them of an idea through an argument, or to reaffirm their
existing beliefs.

Examples of texts that are written to persuade:

 Advertisement
 Campaign speeches
 Persuasive letters or notes

F. Application
Enrichment: Express it!

Directions: Read the sentences below and determine its tone/mood depicted. Write
the letter of each sentence in the box.

A. I want to live
Till the sunset of my time
And I want to give
All the beauty that is mine.

B. I am born in a country of courage and integrity.

It is my honor to live with full of dignity.

C. You would never know it

The constant pain I feel.
Because in the light of day
It almost isn’t real.

D. Feeling left out

Feeling like no one understand
Feeling like no one hear me.
When I’m screaming to be heard
Destructive behavior I have

ANSWERS:
CHEERFUL: D
GLOOMY: C
PRIDE: B
AFRAID: E
SICK: A
V. Assessment/Evaluation

Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if it is wrong.

1. Author is broadly defined as “ the person who originated or gave existence

to anything”
2. Tone is what the readers feel while reading a scene or story.
3. Mood is attitude of the narrator or viewpoint character towards story events
and other characters.
4. Tone is achieved through word choice (diction), sentence construction and
word order (syntax), and by what the viewpoint character focuses.
5. Mood is not the reader’s emotion, but the atmosphere (the vibe) of a scene
or story. It was the reader reads or feels or notices.

VI. Assignment

1. Read the poem entitled “Annabelle Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe and identify the
mood and tone. Underline the words that showed that helped you identify the
tone and mood of the story.
2. Research for more examples of Tone and Mood. Twenty-five examples each.