Close Reading
What SOAPSToneS stands for.
What is Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject, Tone, and Style?
Three different paragraphs in an essay.
What are Introduction, Body Paragraph, and Conclusion?
Main character's name.
Amy Tan
What is arranging blue tiles in a pattern.
What is the overwhelming realization she will not get the freedom she has just imagined for herself.
Materials needed to annotate.
What is:
Pencil, pens, highlighters
What you may find in background context. (3 things)
Title of the literature, author, premise of the text.
Why Amy Tan wants to cry when she hears the minister's family is coming over for Christmas Even dinner.
What is being embarrassed that her crush would look down on her culture.
The lesson Feynman learned from his father.
There is a difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Themes in SoaH
What is gender roles, women empowerment, and liberation?
3 things to annotate when reading a passage.
Including any of the following: literary devices, main/important ideas, words you don't know, connections to other media, concepts that make you confused?
Three parts of an introduction.
Three parts of a body paragraph.
Three parts of a conclusion.
(nine total answers)
What is:
Hook, Background information/context, Thesis Statement
Topic Sentence, Evidence, Analysis, Transition Sentence
Restatement of thesis, Summary of Argument, and Clincher/Lasting Impressions?
SOAPSToneS for Fish Cheeks
What is:
S: 14 year old Amy Tan
O: In the past, Christmas Eve, at Tan's home
A: teenagers, anyone who may feel insecure of their identity
P: to encourage people to be proud of their culture
S: Culture, identity
Tone: Mortified/embarrassed at the beginning, reflective by the end
Style: Speaks like a 14-year old, simile, metaphor, imagery, hyperbole
SOAPSToneS for Making of a Scientist
S: Adult Richard Feynman
O: his childhood
A: children or adults who want to encourage or be encouraged in teaching
P: to encourage learning passively
S: education, raising children
Tone: Reflective, appreciative, admiring
S: rhetorical questions, description
What Josephine and Richard represent in the story.
What is enforcing traditional gender roles?
Benefits of annotating passages?
What is
To get a better understanding of the passage, to make connections, to think critically about a passage, etc.
What are the five types of hooks we went over?
Quote, Statistic, Question, Anecdote, Statement
What is the role of food in this story?
To convey Tan's discomfort with her culture even though it's her favorite meals.
How do you think raising his son in this passive teaching way affected Feynman's relationship with his father?
Answer may vary.
Greater metaphor within the story.
Concept of being caged and free.
SOAPSToneS for Harry Potter
What is:
S: Harry Potter
O: Hogwarts, 90s
A: Kids, teenagers
P: To convey a story about a bullied kid finding his place
S: Wizardy, growing up
Tone: Story-like, occasionally funny and dramatic
Style: Third person limited, etc
Structure and purpose of a thesis statement.
What is
Main idea of paper (using words from the prompt) + transition word + topics of paper.
Do 2-4 reading log annotation for Fish Cheeks.
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Do 2-4 reading log annotation for The Making of a Scientist
What is:
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Do 2-4 reading log annotations for Story of an Hour
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