In this lesson, students will build background by hearing an excerpt from The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, an excerpt where the main character, Milo, travels to a distant land that has a distinctive mood: melancholy. Next, students will discuss how specific word choices help to create mood, and they will discuss how word choice is related to voice. Finally, students will write about driving in a fictional faraway location, and they will attempt to establish an ambiance through word choice and voice.

Concepts

mood, voice, word choice

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Additional Tags

"the phantom tollbooth" by norton juster, northern nevada writing project, writingfix, writingfix.com: your own faraway place, voice in writing, word choice / diction

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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Common Core

WHST.9-10.2.e CCRA.W.3 W.11-12.3.a RL.5.6 WHST.11-12.4