From Electric English...This is a template to analyze Abraham Lincoln's "The Gettysburg Address" using the SOAPSTone method :) Sometimes, it seems to me, there is an acroynym for everything.... Lol. I know, I know, but SOAPStone is actually a really effective tool for helping students understand their reading. It asks the students to consider the speaker/writer, the occasion, the audience, the purpose, the subject matter, and the tone of a piece. It can be applied to fiction or non-fiction, and