8th Grade Author's Purpose

What is the purpose of this advertisement?

• To nourish your mind about voting

• To caution people to vote on a full stomach

• To convince people to vote...and to eat Snickers

• To intimidate people into eating a Snickers

What is the purpose of this image?

• To show people learning about art

• To convince you that art is amazing

• To influence people to buy art

• To create a love of art

What is the author's purpose?

• To create a conversation about grandma

• To glorify Thanksgiving break

• To demonstrate how lonely grandma is

• To convince mom to let them visit their grandma

What is the author's purpose?

• To highlight that education is important

• To convince students to go to college

• To invite a conversation about trade schools

• To protect people's thoughts on education

What is the author's purpose?

• To sell the idea that rules are not important

• To emphasize the importance of rules

• To invite you to follow the rules

• To create new rules

What is the purpose?

• To horrify children with a scary story

• To create a cartoon

• To invite people to watch this cartoon

• To convince people to ban cartoons

What is the purpose?

• To include a list of animals at the Nature Reserve

• To communicate the different areas of the Nature Reserve

• To argue that this is the best Nature Reserve

• To convince people to take a lot of pictures

An article about public schools failing and what we should do to fix them.

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• Problem/Solution

• Cause/Effect

• Compare/Contrast

An article describing the similarities and differences of America and Canada.

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• Description

• Cause/Effect

• Compare/Contrast

A passage in a history book that outlines the causes of the Civil War and what happened after.

• Cause/Effect

• Chronological

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• Description