Marzano Vocabulary

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Marzano Vocabulary
TONE
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An example of tone.

• Dont take that tone with me!

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Another example of tone.

• Wow! I remember this from last year.

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What is the tone of this poem?

• Today Is Very Boring
• Today is very boring
• its a very boring day,
• there is nothing much to look at,
• there is nothing much to say,
• theres a peacock on my sneakers,
• theres a penguin on my head,
• theres a dormouse on my doorstep,
• I am going back to bed.

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Continued

• Today is very boring
• it is boring through and through, there is
  absolutely nothing
• that I think I want to do,
• I see giants riding rhinos,
• and an ogre with a sword,
• theres a dragon blowing smoke rings,
• I am positively bored.

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Continued

• Today is very boring,
• I can hardly help but yawn,
• theres a flying saucer landing
• in the middle of my lawn,
• a volcano just erupted
• less than half a mile away,
• and I think I felt an earthquake,
• its a very boring day.

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• On your vocabulary page,
• write a definition for tone
• in your own words.

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• Draw a symbol or picture to
• represent the word tone.

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Tone can have

• A positive connotation (a meaning that a word
  or phrase suggests in addition to its dictionary
  definition)
• Examples
• proud confident
  enthusiastic
• A negative connotation
• Examples
• furious threatening
  fearful
• A neutral connotation
• Examples
• informative boring
  serious

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Definition

• The tone of the work is the writers attitude
  toward the subject and characters. Tone is
  revealed in a writers choice of words and
  details and even in the sentence structure.