Core Skills Workout: Mood-HL

DRAMA: The Fight for What’s Right, pages 16–23

December 2017/January 2018
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Exploring Mood
Mood is the feeling you get from reading a piece of writing. Another way to describe mood is atmosphere.
When you walk into a place, it has an atmosphere that makes you feel a certain way; when you “walk into” a story, it too
has an atmosphere that creates a feeling. Writers create mood through word choice, imagery, dialogue, setting, and plot.

In this activity, you will consider the mood of Scene 4 in The Fight for What’s Right.

Psst!
Here are two words that could be used to describe the mood of the scene:
Discouraged
means “having
frustrated, discouraged lost confidence
or enthusiasm;
Now let’s look at what creates this mood. depressed.”

The Setting

The details that the Scene Directors provide about the setting help create a frustrated and discouraged mood.

1. We’ve listed two details about the setting that help create a frustrated and discouraged mood. List four
more on the lines below.

• The classroom is cramped. • The classroom is dimly lit.

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2. Complete the following sentence to explain how the details you just listed help create a frustrated and
discouraged mood.

The details about the setting help create a frustrated and discouraged mood because they show that

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DRAMA: The Fight for What’s Right, pages 16–23
December 2017/January 2018
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The Dialogue

The dialogue, or conversation between characters, also helps create a frustrated and discouraged mood.

3. We’ve listed one line of dialogue that helps create a frustrated and discouraged mood. On the blank lines,
list three more.

Jerome: “The smell of those cows is really getting to me.”

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4. Explain how the dialogue helps create a frustrated and discouraged mood.

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