SOAPSTone for Undercover Parent

Goal: Our First Soapstone, learning a piece of rhetorical analysis.

Agenda:
Read
Reading Progress Survey
Be sure your book is checked out to you.
SOAPSTONE Preview
SOAPSTONE with a partner

Reading Progress Survey:
Complete the SURVEY to update me about your current reading.

SOAPSTone:
S - Subject / topic / issue of the text
O - Occasion - what is the context of the text?
A - Audience who is this written for? How do you know?
P - Purpose - why did the author write this? What is his/her goal?
S - Speaker - who is Coben? How do you know? What else can you find out?
Tone - sarcastic, humble, bitter, convinced, unsure, reasonable, angry, immature, educated?

SOAPSTone:
Open the Undercover Parent article I shared with you on Tuesday.
With your partner complete the SOAPSTone FORM.  (If you are absent you'll have to work on it on your own.)

Reminders: 

• Novel projects are due today unless you brought in a can for the food drive. Then you can have one extra day. 
• Tomorrow we write book reviews about the second book you read for this grading period. 
• Make sure your English Journal is complete. 
• Grading period ends Friday.