Hello! I missed you!

Please grab a sheet from the front table and begin working on it quietly.

*ThursdayJanuary 30, 2014

*Agenda

*Go over Smart Start

*SSR for 15 minutes

*Notes: task, audience, and purpose

*Review and collect job applications

*Project details

*Homework

*Goals

*You will be able to successfully fill out a job application.

*You will be able to differentiate between task, purpose, and audience.

*You will be able to write to a specific task, purpose, and audience.

*Author’s Purpose (take notes)

*Authors write for three reasons:

*To inform

*To persuade

*To entertain

*Author’s Purpose (take notes)

*To Inform: to give you information on a topic.

*Usually consists of only the facts

*Examples:

*Brochures

*Articles

*Research summaries

* Textbooks

*Non-Fiction trade and picture books

*How-to manuals and instruction books

*Cookbooks

* Self-help books

*Author’s Purpose (take notes)

*To persuade: to get you to behave in a certain way

*Uses facts to back up opinions

*Examples:

*Book or movie review

*Restaurant reviews

*Editorial articles

*Political position papers and speeches

*Advertisements and commercials

*Author’s Purpose (take notes)

*To entertain: for your enjoyment and fun

*Fiction usually falls into this category

*Examples:

*Novels

*Plays

*Diaries

*Short Stories

*Poetry

*Facebook/Instagram/Twitter statuses and pictures

*Task, Audience, and Purpose (take notes)

*Writers have to take task, audience, and purpose into account when writing anything

*Task: What type of writing are you doing? A letter? A résumé? A fictional story?

*Audience: Who will be reading the piece?

*Purpose: Why are you writing this?

*Application Exercise

*Read the prompt

*Identify task, audience, and purpose

*Write keeping task, audience, and purpose in mind

*This will be timed!

*Prompts

*#1: Write a note to your best friend describing your day. Give details!

*#2: Write a letter to Mr. Valadez on why you think we should not have school uniforms.

*#3: Write a step-by-step guide on how to order food at a fast food restaurant. This might be a guide for someone new to the US.

*#4: Write a review of your LEAST favorite food for a local newspaper.

*AT the top of your paper:

*#

*TASK:PURPOSE:AUDIENCE:Then write it! Write 15-30 sentences.

* Project introduction: Getting a Job

*Assignment: Landing a job

*Listen closely to the project requirements

*Keep the paper I am giving you!

*Look at the job listings in Mrs. Wyatt’s Newspaper and think about which one you want to choose

*9 H Project: Documentary/Ne

ws Report

*Come up with 4 essential research questions

*Share out partners and topics today