Readers of nonfiction determine the writer's purpose for writing a text. We will consider how identifying an author's purpose helps them learn about a topic.
Stop and Jots
Stop and Jots
- It seems that the hawk was really hurt like how the mouse was killed but hawks wasn't killed like the mouse was.
- Hawk broke his leg because the arrow got stuck and so he had to break his own leg to do it. Hawk is really hurting with the arrow and the broken leg hurt more.
- He got stuck in a net trying to catch a sparrow and got taken away in a warm box I think that a doctor caught him and took the arrow out and bandaged his wounds.
- The doctors fix him up and every other day he goes on a flight line and gets stronger then they release him and he gets to go home.
Topic: about a Hawk trying to survive
Type of nonfiction: Literary Nonfiction
Point of view: third person
Information the author really wants us to know:
So what's the point?
Type of nonfiction: Literary Nonfiction
Point of view: third person
Information the author really wants us to know:
- That Hawk was really hurt and needed help
- the resilience of a hawk
- how it catches its food and what it eats
- How they get the Hawk back and make it recover
- How humans really interfere with animals
So what's the point?
- Summarize - What message does the author really want us to take away from the text, or what was the author's purpose in writing this text? I think it was so that she could get people to stop hunting the birds and maybe not interfere with the wildlife.