You will be responsible for reading the following article and answering ONE question from each section of SOAPSTone. You will post ONE question and answer, but TURN in your typed (MLA) work for ALL questions the first week of class.
Expository Text link: "Read To a Tiny Baby? Yes" - New York Times
- Speaker: Is there someone identified as the speaker? What assumptions can you make about this person? What social class does the author come from? What gender? Is the speaker reliable?
- Occasion: when was this written? what may have prompted the author to write this piece?
- Audience: Does the speaker identify an audience? What assumptions can you make about the audience? is it mixed group in terms of race, politics, gender, social class , relation, etc? Who was the document created for?
- Purpose: What is the speaker's purpose? How is this document supposed to make you feel?
- Subject: What is the subject of the piece? How do you know this?
- Tone: What is the author's attitude towards the subject? What words or phrases show the speakers tone?