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

2. compromise
using complex sentences

3. essential
using complex sentences

4. Reading Trash: Finishing Part 4
Get a book!

5. 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

6. 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.

7. Day of the Dead

8. 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.

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