Jaxon Mase 3/30

         Today class was 20 minuets long due to the PARCC testing schedule. We looked at the poem “Let America be America again” by Langston Hughes. We have been dissecting this poem using SOAPSTone.

S- speaker

O- occasion

A- audience

P- purpose

S- subject

T- tone

SOAPSTone is very helpful for looking deep into pieces of literature to see what the author is using and how they are using it to display their perspective.

We then used Kami (an online interactive group based website) to dissect the poem together and get feedback from other students. It is a very helpful and fun way to improve each other with constructive criticism and analyzation. LINK - https://web.kamihq.com/web/viewer.html

We then went on to improve on the claims our groups had made on the poem "Let America be America Again". We used SOAPSTone to analyze the poem further and improve on the claims about what Hughes is talking about and how he uses his background of living in the great depression of America in the 1930's. I personally greatly improved my claim using SOAPSTone. Creating three different claims was interesting because it was awkward rewording it but it gave me good options rather than just one when it comes to deciding the best one.

"Make America be America Again"