Reading Trash 01/12 LO: Can I analyze purpose and audience in a text? Welcome Work: 1. Write down the title, LO, and date.

compromise using complex sentences

essential using complex sentences

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Analyzing newspaper articles PURPOSE: Why was it written? To Persuade To Inform To Entertain AUDIENCE: Who is the intended reader? Consider age, gender, education, interests How do you know? Look for vocabulary, sentence types, evidence (stats/quotes), pictures

Example: of kids not being paid Turn to page 184 Source Title Main Purpose: - To explain? -To persuade? -To entertain? Audience:   Evidence to support you choice for purpose/audience: Star Extra “Police Closing in” To explain Over 18 Educated reader No bias—just facts: “Sources suggest..” High vocabulary like “notoriously” and “imminent” Enquirer  ”Zapanta Mourns his Loss!  To explain with entertainment  Reading level of around 10 -For people who dislike Zapanta  Bias: Against Zapanta Example: of kids not being paid “we all know”; sarcastic tone “Much loved vice president" Daily Star  ”Mohun’s Diary”  To entertain  Younger readers For people who don’t like to read a lot Gossip/provoking rhetorical questions “Don’t shoot my family!” *sarcasm* University Voice  ”Enough is Enough”  To Persuade  College students  ”University” Voice “bad, greedy old man” Calling for change and telling people not to vote for him.

Day of the Dead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBz6KZ5dhEo

Residents of one of the Philippines' worst slums - where families live atop graves and children play among human remains - are preparing for the annual Filipino day of the dead. All Souls' Day in the Philippines, known as Araw ng mga Patay, and All Saints' Day are the two most important days in the Filipino calender. Residents of Navotas, in Metro Manila - and millions more across the nation - are beginning their preparations for the festivals which will see crypts and cemeteries filled with relatives honouring the dead.

Homework: Due Wednesday, January 14: Research another holiday that is celebrated around the world. Write down the 5 W’s and H for it.