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Listening for Tone

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Students read and listen to various poems as they are read by different readers using different tones. They read "Jabberwocky" and in groups, determine what they think the nonsense words in the poem mean. The groups compare thier ideas and discuss how tone can affect the interpretation of a poem.

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7th - 12th
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English Language Arts
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