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Theme is the author's 

• story
• message
• characters
• setting

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What is the authors purpose?
"Eating too much cake and not exercising will give us health problems."

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

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In a campaign speech, the authors purpose is to:

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain
• Describe

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Michaela could feel the lump forming in her throat. She had failed her math test. Again. Mrs. Richardson saw that Michaela was sad and pulled her aside. “Don’t give up,” she said. “The ability to dust yourself off and try again is a true reflection of your character.”

• Memory Moments
• Tough Questions
• Again and Again
• Words of the Wiser

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The theme of a story is the

• main character.
  
• message about life that the author expresses.
  
• sequence of events.
  
• short summary of what the story is about.

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WHAT IS THE MESSAGE?

Please don't spend a lot of money on my birthday present. I'm just thankful to have such a wonderful mother and father. I'll just use the little money I have to buy myself an inexpensive coat. And if I can only find coats that cost more than what I have saved up, I'll just continue wearing the coat I have, even if the zipper is broken.

• I don't want a gift.

• Buy me a coat.

• The zipper on my coat is broken.

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The goal of an argument is to ________.

• entertain someone with what you have to say

• encourage someone to buy something

• convince someone to see your point of view

• sound smart and knowledgeable

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You think you own whatever land you land on

The _______ is just a dead thing you can claim

But I know every rock and tree and creature

Has a life, has a spirit, has a name

Colors of the Wind- Pocahontas

• Earth

• Land

• Nature

• Forest

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What are the three reasons we write?
(Authors purpose for writing)

• Persuade, Inform, Electrify
• Perform, Infer, Entertain
• Persuade, Inform, Educate
• Persuade, Inform, Entertain

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Do you ever wonder how you taste things? You owe your sense of taste to your taste buds. We have 9,000 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.

What does the author want you to learn from the passage?

• Why we can taste only certain things.

• That we taste through our noses

• Where taste buds are found

• We have taste buds on our tongues

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