Today in class we continued to learn about tone, specifically focusing on deciphering between the tone of a text and the tone of a character. To do so, we watched a clip from The Office´s season 2 premiere, The Dundies. Half of the class evaluated the tone of Michael Scott while the other half of the class evaluated the tone of the text overall. The class then discussed the observations the two groups made, utilizing the list of tone words that are on Google Classroom. After this activity, as groups, we looked back at the two coin flip scenes that we saw on Friday (from No Country for Old Men and The Office) and discussed their similarities and differences. From there, we had to synthesize the tones of the two texts and create a sentence, or thesis statement. The goal of this activity was not only to synthesize the texts, but also to write a sentence in which ¨creates space¨ for one to explain and support their claim throughout the rest of their essay. The four group´s examples are available on Google Classroom to view and are good examples to use in order to help write the summer reading essay.
By differentiating between the tone of a character and the tone of a text, it made me realize that I subconsciously do this as I watch different things on my free time. Recently, I watched the Friday Night Lights series and one scene in particular stood out to me. It is a scene in which the main character´s young daughter, Julie, and her boyfriend are telling her parents about their engagement. In the scene, Julie is light-hearted and giddy, which contrasts the serious tone of the entire scene. During the encounter, Julie is physically shaking with excitement, can not stop smiling, and is glowing, meanwhile her parents are stern, not eating, and not smiling. The issue of the engagement not being at an appropriate time dictates the tone of the scene, which may be misinterpreted if one only pays attention to Julie´s character.
Emily, this example is dynamite! Great great GREAT example of when tone in our text differs from that of our character. We seek to understand BOTH as we examine film. Really thorough description of our class too. This would be very helpful for anyone who had missed class. Consider how you could have linked us to that FNL scene, and how that might have extended that learning even further.
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