1. Announcements Please take out all of your homework now. Now that detentions are starting, all strikes/majors will be logged in the computer…BE ON TIME! If you didn’t do your homework, you better come after school. It’s mandatory that you attend office hours. Office Hours – Monday- Thursday – 4-5PM and/or by appointment. Study your literary devices. Test next Friday!

2. Issues w/ Engrade On the index card that I gave you yesterday, I wrote in green if I wanted to clarify something (lowercase, unclear letters or numbers, etc.) or if you received a different username. Your username is your first name and last name combined…all in lower case. Some of you needed a new account and a number was added to your username. EXAMPLE: danielhew If you want to use your existing account, go to your Engrade homepage and add this access code in: mrhew-269537130-6112

3. 11 th Grade American Literature AIM: How do we use SOAPST to break down nonfiction texts such as “Robert Acuna Talks About Farm Workers” by Studs Terkel? (October 14, 2011)

4. What Was Your First Job? If you haven’t had one yet, what do you think your first job will be?

5. Using SOAPST to Help Us Break Down Nonfiction Texts SOAPSTWhat Should We Be Thinking As We Read? S peaker What can you say about the speaker based on references in the text? Is race, gender, class, or age important? O ccasion What issues may have motivated the speaker to think about the incident or occasion? A udience Who is being addressed? Identify some characteristics of the audience. P urpose What is the message and how does the author want the audience to respond? S ubject What is the focus? The subject can be stated by using a few words. T one Using textual support, how would you describe the overall tone of the passage?

6. Breaking Down “Roberto Acuna Talks About Farm Workers” by Studs Terkel Read and annotate the following nonfiction text. As you read, highlight and underline the issues that motivated Robert Acuna to become an organizer for the United Farm Workers. As you read or after you read, complete the SOAPST graphic organizer. As you write, make sure you are specific and detailed.

7. Homework 1) Finish up the rest of SOAPST for “Robert Acuna Talks About Farm Workers”. 2) TPCASTT “Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper” and complete the graphic organizer that goes along with it.