SOAPSTone for Undercover Parent

Goal: Our first SOAPSTone, learning a piece of rhetorical analysis

Agenda: 
Read
SOAPSTONE Preview
SOAPSTONE with a partner

SOAPSTone: 
S - Subject / topic / issue of the text
O - Occasion - what is the context of the text? Consider time period, relevant events, and issues current to 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?
T- Tone - sarcastic, humble, bitter, convinced, unsure, reasonable, angry, immature, educated?

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

Reminders:

• Be sure any books you have from our classroom library are checked out to you. Don't forget, you can use the QR code scanner on your phone to scan the QR codes posted around the classroom.