1. Welcome!
Language Arts
Ms. Marek
Monday-Tuesday, January 30-
31, 2012

2. Independent Reading
Retrieve your library book
READ READ READ READ
READ READ READ

3. Schedule
Monday Purpose / Audience
Tuesday Purpose / Audience
Wednesday Argument / Position
Thursday Argument / Position
Friday Quiz / Celebrations!
• Quiz on FRIDAY – review vocab
• Tuesday: Watch Florida Primary on TV!

4. Election Vocabulary Review
You will have a quiz next FRIDAY – February 3
 Campaign
 Candidate
 Caucus
 Convention
 Delegate
 Front-runner
 Nominee:
 political party
 Polls
 Primary

5. OBJECTIVE
SWBAT analyze
author’s purpose for
writing a text and
determine author’s
intended audience.

6. Think*Write*Share*
 Who is the target audience for this
commercial?
 NEWT AD!
 How do you know?
– Be specific
– Use quotations (direct evidence)

7. Author’s Purpose
 Persuade - to convince the reader to follow the
writer’s opinion.
– Does the author want me to do something?
 Inform - to state facts about a particular subject
– Does the author want me to know something?
 Entertain - to humor, excite or just to bring about an
emotion from the reader
– Does the author want me to laugh?

8. Process Steps (Revised)
Readers identify an authors purpose for writing by following
these steps and answering the questions below:
1. Who is the intended audience?
2. What details are identified facts?
3. Are the facts intended to provide knowledge or to
entertain the reader?
4. Are the facts being used to convince the reader of
something?
5. Identify opinions and personal testimonies for those
opinions.

9. What is the purpose?
 Ex.1: Most experienced drivers would agree
that while it is more exhilarating to ride a
motorcycle than to drive an automobile, it is
foolish to think that this leads to careless
driving and, therefore more accidents,
deaths, and injuries occur to motorcycle
riders than car drivers.
1.
PERSUADE
Who is the intended audience?
2. What facts are identified facts?
3. Are the facts intended to provide knowledge or to
entertain the reader?
4. Are the facts being used to convince the reader of
something?
5. Identify opinions and personal testimonies for those
opinions.

10. What is the purpose?
 Ex.2: Every fourth of July, Ralph invites his whole
family to stay on the lake and make up a jeg. They
called new dances jegs. They danced, pranced and
usually did a little shake. They stuck out one leg and
gave it a wiggle, aunt Lilly was so big hers started to
jiggle. They moved the one leg and Jim said it was a
ENTERTAIN
cranky jeg. The 5 year old little brother stood up and
said no it’s the stanky leg.
1. Who is the intended audience?
2. What facts are identified facts?
3. Are the facts intended to provide knowledge or to entertain the
reader?
4. Are the facts being used to convince the reader of something?
5. Identify opinions and personal testimonies for those opinions.

11. What is the authors purpose?
 Ex. 3: There are nine historically Black Greek
letter organizations that make up the National
Pan-Hellenic Council. Collectively, these
organizations are referred to as "The Divine
Nine." Each of these fraternities and sororities is
rich in history - ties to one or more of these
INFORM
organizations may be found in many college-
educated Black families in the United States.
1. Who is the intended audience?
2. What facts are identified facts?
3. Are the facts intended to provide knowledge or to entertain the
reader?
4. Are the facts being used to convince the reader of something?
5. Identify opinions and personal testimonies for those opinions.

12. Purpose and Audience
 Read excerpt one from President Obama’s State
of the Union Address
 Everyone should have 4 post-its on their desk at
this point.
 Answer the following questions on your stick
notes and place notes in your notebook:
1. Who is the intended audience? How doe you
know? Provide evidence!
2. Are the facts intended to provide knowledge or to
entertain the reader?
3. Are the facts being used to convince the reader of
something
4. Identify opinions and personal testimonies for
those opinions.

13. Purpose and Audience
 Read excerpt two from President Obama’s State
of the Union Address
 Everyone should have 4 more post-its on their
desk at this point.
 Answer the following questions on your stick
notes and place notes in your notebook:
1. Who is the intended audience? How doe you
know? Provide evidence!
2. Are the facts intended to provide knowledge or to
entertain the reader?
3. Are the facts being used to convince the reader of
something
4. Identify opinions and personal testimonies for
those opinions.

14. REMINDERS
READ READ READ!
Start thinking about a book you
want to read.
READ READ READ!