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4. Key Ideas and Details: What reasons does the author provide for why he sees trash as a problem?
5. Craft and Structure: How does Rooney use humor in the last paragraph of his essay? What is the effect?
My Notes
Introducing the Strategy: SOAPSTone
The letters in SOAPSTone stand for subject, occasion, audience, purpose, speaker, and tone. This acronym gives you a helpful tool for analyzing text by breaking it down into separate parts.
Working from the Text
6. Use the SOAPSTone strategy to analyze this argumentative text. It works
particularly well when analyzing nonfiction texts.
SOAPSTone: “America the Not-So-Beautiful”
SOAPSTone
Analysis
Textual Support
Subject:
What is the topic?
Occasion:
What are the circumstances surrounding this text?
Audience:
Who is the target audience?
Purpose:
Why did the author write this text?
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