SOAPSTone: Graphic Organizer Examples

By using SOAPSTone as a basis for analysis, students will discover that a speech, poem or story is carefully structured, and they will look to the details of the text to support their analyses.

A SOAPSTone graphic organizer for one piece of literature might look like this:

Subject Occasion Audience Purpose Speaker Tone
Title of the Piece and Author

         

Or the graphic organizer can be flipped to look like this:

Title and Author of the Piece  
Subject  
Occasion  
Audience  
Purpose  
Speaker  
Tone  

When two or more texts are being contrasted, the graphic organizer may look like this:

Text # - Title & Author Text # - Title & Author Text # - Title & Author
Subject Subject Subject
Occasion Occasion Occasion
Audience Audience Audience
Purpose Purpose Purpose
Speaker Speaker Speaker
Tone Tone Tone