Christina Bally 2/24/2017

Today in class we had a substitute teacher. By the time the bell rang we took attendance and then were instructed to complete the assignment that was on the google classroom. The assignment was titled "SOAPSTone this!". There was a poem attached to the assignment. This meant that we had to analyze the poem and check it for the qualities in which make up the letters of the word soapstone. This included addressing who the speaker is, what the occasion is, who the audience is, and the purpose, subject, and tone. On top of this we had to look for rhetorical and literary devices. We were able to annotate the poem by commenting on the certain sentence that had the particular quality. Doing this allowed us to grasp a further understanding of the text. We were able to analyze the poem word for word. The poem was titled "Let America Be American Again". In this poem, it is explained that America should be the way is used to be, free and the dream it once was. The speaker of this poem is a man named Langston Hughes and the audience was all members of America.