Trash Vortex Chapter 2 POV and Purpose

Trash Vortex Chapter 2 Central Idea, POV, and Purpose

Multiple Choice

What is the gist of Chapter 2?

• Plastic is good for the environment.

• Plastic became very popular, and people threw it away

• Different ways to recycle plastic

• Plastic in our ocean

Central Idea

what the text is mainly about

Multiple Select

What is a central idea of this chapter?

• plastic quickly became

  very popular

• people became

  used to throwing away

  plastic, and that

  became a problem.

• Plastic is bad for our ocean

• We should figure out alternatives for plastic.

How to develop central ideas

Possible methods that develop Central Ideas: experts quotes, studies named, statistics stated, counterarguments addressed, questions raised, comments discussed, descriptions

Multiple Choice

Based on the central idea of "plastic quickly became very popular", how is this idea developed in the chapter?

• It explains the process of how plastic is broke down.

• It explains the negatives of the amount of plastic the world consumes.

• By focusing on the different eras of plastic production and people using plastic.

• Explains how plastics became popular; quotes another author; provides details of how plastic became so useful: “Plastic took the shapes of countertops, clear plastic wrap for food,squeeze bottles, electric plugs”

Author's Purpose

The author’s purpose (this may be to engage, provide information, persuade, or for some other purpose you determine) and how it adds to the text, overall excerpt:

Multiple Choice

The author's purpose of for this chapter is to?

• to provide context about how plastic came to be widely used in an engaging way and to

  introduce the idea that using

  so much plastic caused a problem

• Entertain the readers by sharing the horrors of the effects plastic pollutions has on the world.

• To persuade us to go out and do something about the plastic problem

Authors POV

The point of view in informational texts is the perspective of the author on the topic. It is the way he or she helps the reader understand what the author thinks about the topic.

Teacher Read aloud

In Chapter 2 find the paragraph that begins with "Beginning in the 1950's, plastic trickled". Read at that starting point and pay attention to how the authors shares the perspective people had on plastic at the beginning of the reading and how it changed by the end of the reading

Multiple Choice

How did people view plastic in the 1950's?

• Plastic was plentiful and affordable for people to use.

• Plastic was too expensive for most people.

• You could not find plastic anywhere so people would find alternatives.

• people did not want to use plastic.

Multiple Choice

Towards the end of chapter 2 the author offers a different perspective from what people in the 1950's originally felt towards the use of plastic. What was his perspective towards the end of chapter 2?

• She believes plastic is awesome!

• She believes that there is nothing wrong with the amount of plastic that people us

• She believes that plastic could be used more by people.

• The author offers her own very different

  perspective that plastic is a problem.

Multiple Choice

How does the author distinguish her point from others?

• The author distinguishes her point of view that plastic is a problem by only stating only the negatives of plastic pollution.

• The author distinguishes her point of view that plastic use is a problem by sharing the point of view that americans had in 50's and 60's that plastic is useful, beneficial, and disposable.