Author's Purpose
Author's Purpose #2
Main Idea and Details
Main Idea and Details
Surprise
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What are the three big types of author's purposes?
Inform Entertain Persuade
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What are at least two reasons people write things for others to read?
Inform Persuade Entertain
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Main ideas are supported by what?
Details Important Details Relevant information
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When you respond to a question, you must first state the answer, and then use ____________ to back up your answer.
relevant details details important information
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how many hours of sleep is the right amount to get?
8 hours per night
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When you write to inform, you need to provide what?
Possible answers: need to provide factual information details about something need to teach the reader about something
200
When you write to persuade, you need to do what?
try to convince the reader to do something try to convince the reader to think something try to convince the person USING DETAILS AND INFORMATION
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What's the Main Idea? Jordan's individual accolades and accomplishments include five MVP awards, ten All-NBA First Team designations, nine All-Defensive First Team honors, fourteen NBA All-Star Game appearances, three All-Star Game MVP awards, ten scoring titles, three steals titles, six NBA Finals MVP awards, and the 1988 NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award.
MJ accomplished and achieved so much as a basketball player.
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Jordan's basketball talent was clear from his rookie season. In his first game in Madison Square Garden against the New York Knicks, Jordan received a prolonged standing ovation, a rarity for an opposing player. After Jordan scored a playoff record 63 points against the Boston Celtics in 1986, Celtics star Larry Bird described him as "God disguised as Michael Jordan."
Many people believed MJ was a phenomenal basketball player as soon as he entered the NBA.
200
why is it important to have high expectations for yourself?
because if you don't think you can, who else will? ALWAYS believe in yourself no matter what.
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What's the Author's Purpose and EXPLAIN. Starting in 1933, Hitler began to create terror for the Jews. The terror included taking the jobs of Jews, kicking them out of school, and burning their books.
The author's purpose is to inform -that is, the author wants to teach the reader about things that Hitler did to treat the Jew in a mean way.
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What is the Author's Purpose and EXPLAIN In 1940, the Nazis began creating ghettos for the Jews of Poland. This was one of the saddest examples of how humans have treated one another. Jews were forced out from their homes to live in crowded ghettos -this was an inhumane thing to do. The Nazis were the most terrible group of people because of their actions.
The author's purpose is to persuade you. This is so because the author includes his opinions about how Jews were treated -he is trying to convince you of how bad the Nazis were. Can we prove that the Nazis were worst people ever?
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Were you born after 1985? If so, how long do you expect to live? Most people born after 1985 can expect to live more than 70 years. Of course, this is just a guess based on past records. By the way, females can expect to live about six years longer than males. That’s taken from past records too!
1. why people live to be 70 2. how long you might expect to live 3. about the health of females
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Babies use both hands. But babies use one hand more than the other. This hand may become the preferred one. How can you tell? Lay a baby on its back. Notice which side the baby faces. If the baby looks to the right most of the time, it will probably be right-handed. What does it mean if the baby faces left more often? The baby will most likely be left-handed.
1. how to tell right- from left-handed babies 2. that babies use their hands for many things 3. that there are more left-handed babies
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What did Malcolm X mean when he said "by any means necessary?"
Malcolm was mostly talking about fighting your rights and your freedoms. You can also apply this to your goals and dreams -whatever it takes to succeed, do it -because if you don't try, it will surely never get done.
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What is the author's purpose and EXPLAIN Jordan's basketball talent was clear from his rookie season. In his first game in Madison Square Garden against the New York Knicks, Jordan received a prolonged standing ovation, a rarity for an opposing player. After Jordan scored a playoff record 63 points against the Boston Celtics in 1986, Celtics star Larry Bird described him as "God disguised as Michael Jordan."
the author's purpose is to persuade you -the article wants to make you think that MJ was a supernatural basketball player -can you prove this beyond a reasonable doubt? That's why it is persuasive writing.
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What's the author's purpose and EXPLAIN Jordan's individual accolades and accomplishments include five MVP awards, ten All-NBA First Team designations, nine All-Defensive First Team honors, fourteen NBA All-Star Game appearances, three All-Star Game MVP awards, ten scoring titles, three steals titles, six NBA Finals MVP awards, and the 1988 NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award.
the author's purpose is to inform you -that is, it is telling you information about MJ's impressive accomplishments as a basketball player -not trying to convince you of anything.
400
Farmers in Japan have a problem. There is not much land to farm, and there are many people to feed. Some farmers cut rows in the hillsides and grow crops there. This helps a little, but many kinds of food are shipped to Japan. They can choose anything they want to eat!
1. There is little land to farm in Japan; so many kinds of food are shipped to Japan. 2. Growing food on the hillside in Japan is hard work. 3. The Japanese like getting food from different countries.
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Do you ever wonder how you taste things? You owe your sense of taste to your taste buds. We have nine thousand taste buds just on the tongue alone. There are also taste buds on the roof of your mouth. You even have taste buds on the back of your throat.
1.why we can taste only sweet things 2. that we taste through our nose 3. where taste buds are found
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Believe with all of your heart that you will do what you were made to do. Orison Swett Marden
thoughts?
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what's the author's purpose and EXPLAIN When Little was released from prison in 1952, he had more than a new religion. He also had a new name. In a December 1950 letter to his brother Philbert, Little signed his name as Malcolm X for the first time. In his autobiography, he explained why: "The Muslim's 'X' symbolized the true African family name that he never could know. For me, my 'X' replaced the white slavemaster name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed upon my paternal forebears."
the author's purpose is to inform you -that is, the passage is about informing you of how the man Malcolm X's name came to be.
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what's the author's purpose and EXPLAIN Malcolm X has been described as one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history. He is credited with raising the self-esteem of black Americans and reconnecting them with their African heritage. He is largely responsible for the spread of Islam in the black community in the United States. Many African Americans, especially those who lived in cities in the Northern and Western United States, felt that Malcolm X articulated their complaints concerning inequality better than the mainstream civil rights movement did
the author's purpose is to persuade you -that is, it is trying to convince you that Malcolm X was a influential person to black people. There is no way to prove that, which
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Despite the hatred that most people feel toward cockroaches, they do help humans in several ways. For example, they are perfect experimental animals and are used for scientific research in the laboratory. Breeding them is easy, for they thrive under almost any conditions. In studies on nutrition and food, cockroaches are good subjects because they will eat any kind of food. They can be used to study heart disease, and cancer researchers work with roaches because they grow cancerous tumors like those that are found in humans.
The main idea is that cockroaches have some uses to humans despite humans generally not liking them.
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Scientists can measure the intensity of an earthquake. They use an instrument called the Richter scale. The Richter scale compares the strength of different earthquakes. Earthquakes below 2.0 usually can’t be felt. Earthquakes over 5.0 on the scale can cause damage. A magnitude 7.0 is a major earthquake and can cause tremendous damage.
Scientists can measure the intensity of an earthquake. Strong earthquakes can cause lots of damage. Some earthquakes are very small.
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. Theodore Roosevelt
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