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In today's class, we focused more on SOAPSTones. We started off reflecting on our responses to the google class assignment from yesterday. My group thought that the best claims were made by Nadir and Hannah because they were arguable and detailed, giving enough information to support their claims. Mr. Rivers showed Nadir’s response to the class and together we analyzed it. His claim in his response is “Langston Hughes writes this to give the people hope that America will one day be as great as people claim it to be.”
This is an effective claim because it can be argued and supported with evidence. Another response that we went over as a class was Kayla’s. Her response included literary terms along with rhetorical devices. The final response we went over together was Hannah’s. Her response showed excellent diction and established tone.

After this, Mr. Rivers put two sentences on the board and asked the class the difference between them. “America should be more equal.” and “ Hughes argues that America should be more equal.”  The differences between these sentences is that one is a rhetorical analysis and the other is just a claim.

At the end of class, the students got in groups to try and create more claims using this information. The more claims you have, the more arguments you are able to make.