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Writing Workshop 5 (continued)
My Notes
During Reading
1. Conduct a close reading of Michael Lupinacci’s opinion article “Jeter: Put Your Money Where Your Fans Are.” As you read, mark the text for the elements of SOAPSTone and analyze the author’s style and craft. This analysis will help you prepare to write a response to an expository text.
SOAPSTone (Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject, Tone) is an acronym for a series of questions to ask yourselves about a text. The questions help you analyze the central components of texts professional writers have created. SOAPSTone is also a strategy to use to plan your own writing. Review the SOAPTSTone questions below.
SOAPSTone
• Who is the Speaker?
What can you infer about the speaker based on references in the text?
• What is the Occasion?
What are the some of the circumstances, issues, or context (social, geographical, cultural, or historical) that might have prompted the writer to write this text?
• Who is the target Audience?
To whom is this text designed to appeal or reach? Explain. What references from the text support you assertion?
What is the Purpose?
Why did the author write this text? How might the writer want the audience to think or respond as a result of reading this text?
• What is the Subject
What is the writer’s central idea, position, or main message about life in this text?
• What is the Tone?
What is the writer’s attitude toward his or her subject? Choose a few specific words of phrases from the text and explain how they support your statement.
Complete the SOAPTSone graphic organizer after reading the text. Sample Text
Jeter: Put Your
Money Where Your
Fans Are
by Michael Lupinacci
I teach geometry, humanities and film at a wonderful, ethnically and economically diverse public high school in New York City. In all of my classes, I push my students
to develop a sense of social justice. I ask them to consider how resources can be distributed fairly in our society and what responsible citizens can do to give back. In class discussions my students often ask me difficult questions, like “Why aren’t many of the wealthiest people in our country doing more?” My only answer is that many people haven’t yet realized the power they have to change lives.
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