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Check your Understanding
Now that you have read closely and worked to understand challenging portions of these texts, choose a sentence that you think is important to understanding the texts. Explain in your own words what the sentence means and why it is important to understanding the texts.
Synthesizing your Understanding
Now that you have read the texts three times and studied the vocabulary and sentences, work with your classmates and your teacher to synthesize your understanding by applying the SOAPSTone strategy to Guthrie’s lyrics. Respond to the following questions as a way of bringing all your knowledge together.
S – Speaker
What do we know about the speaker? What is his or her background with the subject? How does this person’s background or position impact the way the text is written?
O – Occasion
What is the immediate occasion? What is the time and place of the piece of writing?
What events or concerns prompted the author to write?
Introducing the Strategy: SOAPSTone
SOAPSTone is a strategy for analysis of a text to understand an author’s craft. Using this strategy, the reader discusses and identifies the speaker, the occasion, the audience, the purpose, the subject, and the tone.
Close Reading Workshop 5 • Close Reading of Informational Texts in Social Studies/History 7
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