Today in class we strengthened our claims by focusing on not only the speaker but the tone, occasion and purpose. We focused on how to turn our claims into a good strong essay. We also worked with other groups who focused on different SOAPS and combined our claims to make strong topic sentences. The goal for today is to make 3 strong claims about the poem using these:- Your claim with one lens
- Claim with two lens
- Claim with two lense
In my group we came up strong claims such as:
My claim:
America gleams on the outside but tarnished on the inside.
Purpose in Occasion:
Langston Hughes wrote his poem “Let America be America Again” during times of turmoil known as the Great Depression in which he uses polysyndeton and anaphora to emphasize irony in calling America “the homeland of the free” in times of such desperation for different minority groups.
Purpose in Tone:
In his poem “Let America be America Again” Langston Hughes establishes his goal to call attention to the irony in calling America “the homeland of the free” criticizing and disapproving of America during this time period through the use of polysyndeton and anaphora.
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