First, fourth, and sixth periods began a new selection that will focus on mood. Our first task: determine what mood is and how writers create it. And to do that, we … listened to music and watched movie trailers. We did this to see what mood is: an atmosphere created by a work of art. We watched a trailer for a romantic comedy, then watched a re-cut version of the trailer that made the film appear to be a horror film. We then transitioned to mood in writing, looking at three ways writers create mood.

Second period continued I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. We looked at the continuing theme of displacement and how that theme is manifested in the dentist episode and Bailey’s encounter with a dead body.

Homework

• First, fourth, and sixth periods: “Mood” handout, exercise A, numbers 1-3.
• Second period: Read chapters 26, 27.