5. Author's Purpose

A recipe to make an award-winning spicy chicken salad

• Entertain
• Inform
• Persuade

A note from your friend asking you to be his science partner

• Entertain
• Inform
• Persuade

A map of the school showing all of the emergency exits

• Entertain
• Inform
• Persuade

A poem about a chef who ruins every meal that he cooks

• Entertain
• Inform
• Persuade

A speech arguing that the 8th grade class should read The Hunger Games

• Entertain
• Inform
• Persuade

A care label on the back of a sweatshirt explaining how to wash it

• Entertain
• Inform
• Persuade

A script for a TV show about a detective who can read the minds of farm animals

• Entertain
• Inform
• Persuade

A sign carried by a protestor that reads, “More Libraries, Fewer Prisons!”

• Entertain
• Inform
• Persuade

The play Hamlet by William Shakespeare

• Entertain
• Inform
• Persuade

A novel about a group of young boys who learn to demand respect from the world

• Entertain
• Inform
• Persuade