Blogger #19 - Kelly Mei - Period 3 - 11/1/2021

 Aim: How does Golding use descriptive language to create setting and convey meaning?

Do now:  Take a few minutes to write/describe a detailed description of your favorite room. Write for the entire time (think of the senses when describing).

The students were given fifteen minutes to describe their favorite room and post it on the padlet. An example is from our classmate, Sofya who’s describing her grandparents’ living room. “My favorite room is my grandparents' living room. It has a big leather couch and a nice TV. It also has the door to the backyard and you can see all the nature surrounding their house in front of the couch. Surprisingly, the couch is really comfortable and it would be an honor to spend the night there. The living room also has my bird there, who moved to Florida this summer. I don’t remember how the room smells or what it feels like but I do remember that I really like it. The living room feels warm and it has a lot of neutral colors. It might seem boring at first, but honestly, sometimes boring is what you need to just relax and be able to take a break.”
Another example is from Edward describing his bedroom, “My favorite room is my own bedroom! Blue and yellow walls cover the room, and they give me a sense of joy whenever I look at them, or when I wake up - yellow is a color of happiness, and blue - of calmness. The bookshelf to the right hand corner provides a look into the world and all the things around us. I marvel when looking at the maps hanging on my back wall, each of them in a different location, with each of them meaning something to me. The dartboard hanging near my door provides fun and entertainment, as does my TV. My black desk, which I have had for over 10 years, provides the complete opposite - it is a workplace, a symbol that life isn’t easy. Finally, my favorite part of the room is my window to the left, which brings in light and joy!”

https://padlet.com/jpetersonuft/x58cugwzah0dw4uz 

Ms. Peterson asked the class what we had to do in order to do this activity. My classmates said that we needed to envision ourselves into the room we are thinking about in order to thoroughly describe it with details. This eventually will help us understand that the Lord of the Flies was also written like this.

What is the difference between mood and tone?

Our class had established that the difference between mood and tone was that mood is how the reader feels and it’s more difficult to identify as for tone, it’s the writer’s attitude towards a subject.
Here are some definitions of mood and tone.

Mood : The atmosphere that pervades a literary work with the intention of evoking a certain emotion or feeling from the audience. In drama, mood may be created by sets and music as well as words; in poetry and prose, mood may be created by a combination of such elements as SETTING, VOICE, TONE, and THEME. The moods evoked by the more popular short stories of Edgar Allan Poe, for example, tend to be gloomy, horrific, and desperate.

Tone : The attitude of the author toward a subject or an audience. Tone is generally conveyed through the choice of words (diction), or the viewpoint of the writer on the particular subject.For example, if the author is writing about a particular theme and they choose to approach it with a sad and serious tone--the author’s perspective is quite clear. Whereas another author might approach the same topic in a sarcastic and comic manner.

Read Aloud,  Chapter 12: 

As we read: Jot down words or images that pop into your mind. Note the diction that Golding uses to create mood!

Sensory imagery: words that make you smell, taste, see, hear, and feel.

After: How does the setting in Lord of the Flies create mood? What is the mood in chapters 3 and 4?

After reading out loud page 12, our group was supposed to identify words that we think of while reading it as well as identify the mood in chapters 3 and 4. We said that the author uses colors like ‘pink granite,’ and green. The author was very descriptive of his words, like using ‘thrust up uncompromisingly to describe how the layout of where the characters are at was’.The class established that in 3 it creates a sense of chaos and urgency. A classmate gave an example of how the author projects this with page 71 of Lord of the Flies when the dialogues contained hyphens, showing the characters were talking over each other over shelter and food. In chapter 4, it shows desperation and tension, like the scene of the fire when a ship was nearby and the boys had created a fire in order to get rescued.


Finally after the end of the lesson, we were introduced to our group project based off of Lord of the Flies. We were to create our own imaginary island and use creative imagery, using setting and mood to convey the atmosphere of our island.

Reflections:

For today’s lesson, we learned about how we could use descriptive language in order to help our audience envision where they are and what they are in. By deeply analyzing a paragraph in Lord of the Flies, I believe that this will better help me understand the story and the words better. We are learning this because some tend to read past the wordings, however if we read into Golding’s description of where the characters are at, it helps with the reading comprehension of the readers. If Golding had not used descriptive writing and it was just simply telling us the reader where the characters are at like “the children are stuck in an abandoned island,” it wouldn’t help us as the readers to visualize where they are at. We use this style of writing to help the reader be in the character’s shoes and make them really feel like they are a part of the story. Finally, I will be able to describe specifically to help tell others to fully understand what I am writing or describing about.