Author's Tone Activity and Assessment for Middle School - Fast Food Orders
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This funny activity will give your students practice analyzing an author's tone!
Tone is one of those words that seems overwhelming to middle-school students, but attitude is something they are all too familiar with. What many kids don't realize is that an author's tone and an author's attitude are actually the same thing!
In this engaging activity, your students will read 10 fast-food orders. Each customer orders the exact same menu items, but each customer has a very different attitude or tone as they order.
The following tones are included
- Accusatory
- Admiring
- Aggressive
- Condescending
- Critical
- Defensive
- Detached
- Formal
- Optimistic
- Pleading
Two assessment options are included:
Option 1: Students are given a packet that includes the 10 fast-food orders and a simple matching worksheet. As they read the passages, students highlight words that give them clues about the customer's attitude. They then match each passage to the tone that best describes it. This option is perfect for sub plans or for a day when you need to rest, as students can work independently.
Option 2: The class reads each fast-food order together, and each passage is posted on a classroom wall after it is read. The class is divided into 10 small teams, and 1 person on each team is given a tone card (with tape on the back) and then blindfolded. The "seeing" teammates walk around the room, re-read the passages, look for tone clues, and shout directions at their blindfolded teammates until the tone cards are successfully stuck on the passages that match them.
So what exactly is included?
- Teacher instructions to get you started
- 10 Short passages
- Topic - Fast-food orders
- Tones - Accusatory, Admiring, Aggressive, Condescending, Critical, Defensive, Detached, Formal, Optimistic, Pleading
- A print-and-go student worksheet (perfect for sub plans or a laid-back day of teaching)
- 20 Tone cards for an engaging game (10 with tone only; 10 with tone + definition)
- A worksheet answer key for quick and easy assessment
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