Unit 2: Author's Purpose/ Point of View/ Main Idea

A recipe to make an award-winning spicy chicken salad.

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

A map of the school showing all the emergency exits

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

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

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

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

The instruction booklet to a video game called Vehicle Grand Larceny

A teen’s letter to the mayor asking for a skate park to help keep kids out of trouble

A sticker on a frozen pizza with directions explaining how to cook the pizza

Remember, any tool that you can use against an enemy may also be used against you. Therefore, it is highly recommended that you build a course with your clan to practice keeping your wits when something is trying to set you off course. You can make your own mini gauntlet to increase your skills in your own backyard. From what point of view is this passage?

Remember, any tool that you can use against an enemy may also be used against you. Therefore, it is highly recommended that you build a course with your clan to practice keeping your wits when something is trying to set you off course. You can make your own mini gauntlet to increase your skills in your own backyard. If this passage was written in Third Person Point of View, what would the first sentence look like?

We lived on the main residential street in town – Atticus, Jem, and I, plus, Calpurnia, our cook. Jem and I found our father satisfactory: he played with us, read to us, and treated us with courteous detachment. Our mother died when I was two, so I never felt her absence. She was a Graham from Montgomery; Atticus met her when he was first elected to the state legislature. From what point of view is this passage ?

We lived on the main residential street in town – Atticus, Jem, and I, plus, Calpurnia, our cook. Jem and I found our father satisfactory: he played with us, read to us, and treated us with courteous detachment. Our mother died when I was two, so I never felt her absence. She was a Graham from Montgomery; Atticus met her when he was first elected to the state legislature. Who is telling the story?

The crop which gives the most food to man and animals in the United States is corn. Most of the corn grown is for use as animal feed. The farmers of the United States produce about one half of all the corn grown in the world. The Main Idea is: