Schoolwide Non-Fiction Lesson 6

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.

Topic: A Hawk that got shot with an arrow.

Type of nonfiction: Literary non-fiction.

Point of view: 3rd person`

Information the author really wants us to know

• How the hawk was brave and fighting death.
  
• How humans interfere with wildlife.
  
• How humans can be nice to wildlife and how some don't.
  
• How wildlife struggles.
  

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 that this author might have wanted to show people how mean we can be to wildlife and how we can fix it. Hopefully I never see a shot down bird!
    

                 Stop and Jots:

• This book seems to have very visual words. I had a very good visual when the book said that Hawk was screeching in pain! And that blood was flowing everywhere! I think that this book will be a survival story because the arrow will probably injure him badly.
  
• I think Hawk it a survivor because he broke off his own leg to get part of arrow out! But he his hungry and tired. He also reopened the arrow wounds and every time he landed he was tired!
  
• I wonder what is going on because when Hawk tried to capture a sparrow he got stuck in a net! Maybe a bird keeper will help him get back to good health.
  
• My prediction was right! People helped Hawk get the arrow out and get him stronger! I wonder if he will be scared to go back to the wild? Will he get hurt again?