1. Soapstones and Visuals Rhetorical Analysis

2. SOAPSTONES: Teaching Close Reading S = Subject: What is the topic of the piece? O = Occasion: What called the creator of the piece to put pen to paper? What was the immediate cause? Is there a later occasion that gives the piece a different or larger meaning? A = Audience: To whom is the piece intended? Can there be more than one? P = Purpose: What is the creator’s message to the audience. What does s/he hope to accomplish? Purpose and theme are closely related. S = Speaker and Shift(s): What conclusions can you draw about the speaker? Where do you notice shifts? Tones = Creator’s Attitude to the Subject? The Audience? The Occasion?

5. Caption: "Nipomo, Calif. Mar. 1936. Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged 32, the father is a native Californian. Destitute in a pea pickers camp, because of the failure of the early pea crop. These people had just sold their tent in order to buy food. Most of the 2,500 people in this camp were destitute."

7. "Destitute peapickers in California; a 32 year old mother of seven children. February 1936."

9. Caption: "Nipomo, Calif. March 1936. Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children and their mother, aged 32. The father is a native Californian."