Learning Target 12/2/13 You will be able to identify and analyze an author’s purpose and evaluate the effectiveness of an author’s writing for different audiences.

What have we been working on for the last few weeks? Food for Thought! What have we been working on for the last few weeks? Personal Narrative Why have we been doing it? To share our stories To entertain!  Why do authors write?

Essential Question As a writer, why is it important to have a purpose for your writing before you begin?

Author’s Purpose

Definition An AUTHOR’S PURPOSE is the reason an author decides to write about a specific topic. Once a topic is selected, the author must decide whether his purpose for writing is to instruct, persuade/convince, entertain, or explain his ideas to the reader.

Author’s Purpose To Instruct To Inform To Entertain To tell the audience how to perform To Inform To tell the audience information about a specific topic To Entertain To provide entertainment for the audience To Persuade/Convince To make the audience want to do something

INSTRUCT, INFORM, ENTERTAIN, PERSUADE/CONVINCE?? 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DYH2t8fCqo INSTRUCT, INFORM, ENTERTAIN, PERSUADE/CONVINCE??

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INSTRUCT, INFORM, ENTERTAIN, PERSUADE/CONVINCE?? Smart Spin 3. Click here for the next example. INSTRUCT, INFORM, ENTERTAIN, PERSUADE/CONVINCE??

INSTRUCT, INFORM, ENTERTAIN, PERSUADE/CONVINCE?? 4. INSTRUCT, INFORM, ENTERTAIN, PERSUADE/CONVINCE??

Answers Breaking Dawn – entertain More about Dinosaurs–inform Smart Spin – persuade/convince Basketball Skills and Drills – instruct

Let’s Go Back! Essential Question: Did these author’s have a purpose in mind before writing?

“When are we ever going to use this?!” Joshua Liu (University of Toronto Med Student) “I am sure there are many extremely qualified candidates for medical school. In fact, I think there are probably significantly many more people who would make fantastic physicians than there are spots. And in some cases, I think it is possible for some of the most promising physicians to not get into medical school. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: for any admissions process, be it a scholarship, professional school, or job, it’s not the best or most deserving candidates that get selected – it’s the candidate who does the best at the admissions process. It’s the candidate who markets himself or herself the best, and makes the evaluators think he or she is the best candidate.” Goes on to say…. “In order for the ideas to make sense, there must be an overall purpose behind them – that is, you must have clear intentions and reasons for writing what you write. This purpose should go even deeper, that is, your individual sentences and sometimes even words alone should serve a specific purpose. And these small individual purposes should add up to the overall purpose of your essay.” Discuss what we’ve just read. Why is writing with a purpose important?

Application! Show Me!!!  Learning Target: Assignment! Can you identify and analyze an author’s purpose and evaluate the effectiveness of an author’s writing for different audiences? Show Me!!!  Assignment!

Assignment Assignment: With your tablemates, research different written works from different authors that have the specific purpose to: Entertain Inform Instruct Persuade/Convince You will present your findings with the class TOMORROW! You must be able to prove that you can identify and analyze an author’s purpose and evaluate the effectiveness of an author’s writing for different audiences. Bonus: Find written works from the same author that have different purposes….are YOU up to the challenge?! 