Exploring Tone

I plan on using IBook in teaching how to note tone and tone shifts in poetry. In order to do this, I will download some poetry in IBook and have students listen to the text through text to speech. As they listen to the poem, I want them to note how they would read it in order to convey the meaning of the poem. What would they do differently?

Then students would read them noting any shifts in tone and how that contributes to the theme of the poem.

Then students will create their own IBook of poetry. They will choose the poems, listen to them read, and then do their own reading.