Flight Behavior Lesson Plan

Making Mood Playlists

Kind of Activity:

Technology

Objective:

Students will develop a deeper understanding of the concepts of tone and mood, using that knowledge to analyze the mood of the novel and make an appropriate playlist with songs that match the novel's mood.

Structure:

Begin this activity by presenting the class with this video explaining tone and mood in literature and beyond.

Using the information from the video, begin a classwide discussion analyzing the tone and mood of the novel. Ask students to provide examples from the text that help convey both its tone and mood. They should each take notes by creating a list of two columns: one for tone and one...