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:
Or the graphic organizer can be flipped to look like this:
When two or more texts are being contrasted, the graphic organizer may look like this:
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 |
