Practical exercise
Tone analysis of three Urdu couplets
You will pick three Urdu couplets that share a theme but live in different tones, and write a short tone analysis of each. The exercise sounds artistic, but it is really a precision exercise. By the end you will name tone the way a doctor names a symptom.
45 min·practitioner

Now try it
Tone analysis of three Urdu couplets
Stretch
Repeat with English news leads on one event from three different newspapers in the same week. Tone analysis works as well in English as in Urdu, but the tools to detect it are slightly different.
Goes into your portfolio
One sheet titled tone-NN with three handwritten couplets, three line analysis under each, and a four sentence reflection at the bottom.
