Read each, article, selection, story, or poem below and answers the Author's Purpose related questions that accompany them. Correctly submit each Google form to earn one of the combination code digits. Enter all the digits in the correct order (don't scramble them up) on the very last Google Form to win.

Tulips

(A) Analyze author's purpose, audience, and message within a text:

Students will learn to identify the author's main goal in writing (inform, persuade, entertain etc.), who they are writing for (target audience), and the central message they are trying to convey.

Bluebonnets

(B) Analyze use of text structure to achieve the author's purpose:

Students will explore how authors organize their writing (chronological, cause-effect, compare/contrast etc.) and how this structure contributes to their overall purpose.

Roses

This objective focuses on analyzing visual elements like fonts, pictures, diagrams, or charts, and how these elements support the author's message.

Sunflowers

(D) Analyze how the author's use of language achieves specific purposes:

Students will dissect how word choice, sentence structure, and other language features create specific effects (emotional impact, clarity, persuasion etc.).

Sneezeweed

(E) Analyze the use of literary devices such as [point of view], irony, and oxymoron to achieve specific purposes:

This objective delves into specific literary tools like point of view, irony, or oxymoron, and how these tools enhance meaning and impact the reader.

Shooting Stars

(F) Analyze how the author's diction and syntax contribute to the mood, voice, and tone of a text:

Students will learn how the author's choice of words (diction) and sentence structure (syntax) create the overall atmosphere (mood), the author's personality coming through the writing (voice), and the general attitude (tone) conveyed in the text.

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(G) Explain the purpose of rhetorical devices such as understatement and overstatement and the effect of logical fallacies such as straw man and red herring arguments:

This objective tackles more advanced communication techniques. Students will learn how authors use exaggeration (overstatement) or minimization (understatement) for effect, and how to identify flawed arguments like straw man (attacking a misrepresentation of the opponent's argument) and red herring (introducing irrelevant information to distract).