1. JOURNAL Jan. 7, 2013
How does the media (TV, radio, the news, etc.) impact your daily life? How did it impact your winter break? And do you believe it has an influence on how you think or act? Explain!

2. How does the media (TV, radio, the news, etc.) impact your daily life?
Over winter break, I’ll admit, I spent some time going to the movies. That brightly lit screen fills my head with dreams about living in a hobbit home and venturing off with Gandalf and a bunch of dwarves. It helps me escape my real life for awhile. I may be the height of Bilbo Baggins, but I have yet to live underground in a hobbit home in the Shire, as much as I’d like to. Movies, books, TV, and music do have an impact on my life because they allow me to forget reality and imagine a different life for myself. Listening to the complaints of news pundits can be boring, but sometimes movie characters do inspire me to be more adventurous in my own life! That’s why the rest of my winter break was spent cross country skiing and snowshoeing in the wilderness.
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How does the media (TV, radio, the news, etc.) impact your daily life?

4. In your journal, write why you think the author wrote this poem.
Be Glad Your Nose is On Your Face
Be glad your nose is on your face,
Not pasted on some other place.
For if it were where it is not,
You might dislike your nose a lot.
Imagine if your precious nose
Were sandwiched in between your toes.
That clearly would not be a treat,
For you’d be forced to smell your feet.
Your nose would be a source of dread
Were it attached atop your head.
It soon would drive you to despair,
Forever tickled by your hair.
Within your ear, your nose would be
An absolute catastrophe.
For when you were obliged to sneeze,
Your brain would rattle from the breeze.
Your nose, instead, through tick and thin,
Remains between your eyes and chin,
Not pasted on some other place—
Be glad your nose is on your face!
By Jack Prelutsky
In your journal, write why you think the author wrote this poem.

8. Tree Map – Draw with me in your journal!

9. Tree Map – Draw with me in your journal!

10. TIME TO STUDY! Quickly quiz one person in your group…
PARTNER ONE BEGINS: Turn and quiz your partner. Ask:
What is the name of this reading strategy?
What are the three reasons authors write?

11. TIME TO STUDY! Quickly quiz one person in your group…
PARTNER TWO BEGINS: Turn and quiz your partner. Ask:
What is the meaning of author’s purpose?
What are the three reasons for writing?
What are the traits of each purpose?

12. Let's look at some clues to see if an author is trying to entertain, to persuade, or to inform the reader!

13. Author’s Purpose: ____________________

14. Author’s Purpose: ____________________

15. Author’s Purpose: ____________________

17. Start at these stations, but you do not need to work as a group:1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

21. Use the information on the bottle to determine the author’s purpose.