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Unpacked Content
Knowledge
- Authors choose particular vocabulary and write in a specific style depending on the purpose of the writing and the tone and mood they intend to create.
- Tone is the attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience, and mood is the overall feeling, or atmosphere, of a text.
Skills
- Identify the tone and mood of a text.
- Explain how an author's vocabulary and writing style influence the tone and mood of the text.
- Identify an author's purpose for writing a text.
- Explain how an author's vocabulary and writing style support their purpose for writing the text.
Understanding
- Authors select specific words and write in a particular style to set a tone and mood for the text, and indicate their purpose for writing the text.
Vocabulary
- Author's vocabulary
- Author's style
- Tone
- Mood
- Purpose
