https://padlet.com/akostellic/1cs603ln4mek What is the author's purpose for writing your book? What is the CENTRAL IDEA (or lesson) for readers to take away from the story? Use at least two sentences with TEXT EVIDENCE to answer the above questions. Don't forget your name, the title of the book, and the author as the title of your post. See example. en-us 2016-09-07 13:19:14 UTC 2016-09-22 15:46:49 UTC hello@padlet.com akostellic https://padlet.com/akostellic/1cs603ln4mek/wish/122744081 The author's purpose is either to INFORM, to ENTERTAIN, or to PERSUADE. Don't forget your text evidence. ]]> 2016-09-09 14:08:27 UTC https://padlet.com/akostellic/1cs603ln4mek/wish/122744081 https://padlet.com/akostellic/1cs603ln4mek/wish/122749573 I believe the author was trying to teach us the different was you can die. My text evidence is that she is writing about the deaths of different famous people, you can tell there is a variety by each chapter being a different about how a different person died.]]> 2016-09-09 14:19:46 UTC https://padlet.com/akostellic/1cs603ln4mek/wish/122749573 dg002181 https://padlet.com/akostellic/1cs603ln4mek/wish/122752556 The Sinking of the Titanic Interesting and mysterious facts

I feel that the author was trying to inform the readers reading this book about the Titanic. Not just all the things everyone these days knows, but the unknown stuff. By giving us these facts we know know more about HOW the huge ship sank, and WHY it might have sank. Its a great book to read.]]> 2016-09-09 14:26:00 UTC https://padlet.com/akostellic/1cs603ln4mek/wish/122752556 https://padlet.com/akostellic/1cs603ln4mek/wish/122829612 I believe that the authors purpose for writing this book was to inform readers about the significance of the 1984 NBA Draft. It is probably the most well-known draft for the NBA of all time. The author wanted to share with the reader the importance of this. For example, in the story it said that almost all of the first round picks that year went on to be millionaires. At least 5 of the draftees were hall of fame caliber in their time. This author was clearly telling you that as a basketball fan, you need to know and inform yourself about this.]]> 2016-09-09 17:30:42 UTC https://padlet.com/akostellic/1cs603ln4mek/wish/122829612 https://padlet.com/akostellic/1cs603ln4mek/wish/122851781  I think the author is trying to teach us to look deeper than the surface, because on the outside, McDonald's seemed fine, but it was really just focusing on money, and ignored everything else]]> 2016-09-09 18:27:07 UTC https://padlet.com/akostellic/1cs603ln4mek/wish/122851781 https://padlet.com/akostellic/1cs603ln4mek/wish/122851793 I think that the authors purpose for this book was to entertain everyone by telling them about he life. She also what're to inform people about the journey that you have to work through in order to reach your goals. The author talked about many important points but alot  had a little fun with it.]]> 2016-09-09 18:27:09 UTC https://padlet.com/akostellic/1cs603ln4mek/wish/122851793 dg005004 https://padlet.com/akostellic/1cs603ln4mek/wish/123160337 The author is trying to inform or teach the crowd about his very interesting childhood. The central idea to take away is that you can relate to many different people's life, and to speak up.]]> 2016-09-12 15:00:38 UTC https://padlet.com/akostellic/1cs603ln4mek/wish/123160337 https://padlet.com/akostellic/1cs603ln4mek/wish/123274564 This book is to inform because it gives you lots of facts about police radio talk. In Cop Talk, there really isn't a central idea other than to inform, but throughout the book, the author mentioned a lot about how to listen in to police radios. The central idea in that part of the book is be prepared before you get into trouble because the author bought a frequency reader and checked the cities regulations to see if listening to the police is legal.]]> 2016-09-12 19:21:01 UTC https://padlet.com/akostellic/1cs603ln4mek/wish/123274564 https://padlet.com/akostellic/1cs603ln4mek/wish/123836341 The author probably wrote this book for entertainment but also to teach us life lessons. The central idea of this book is to take away these life lessons and learn from them so that what happened to these people won't happen to you. For example, one of the character in the book was a prankster. One of  his prank's went sourly wrong and then he wound up dead. The authors purpose for writing this book was a bit to entertain and persuade]]> 2016-09-14 16:32:14 UTC https://padlet.com/akostellic/1cs603ln4mek/wish/123836341 https://padlet.com/akostellic/1cs603ln4mek/wish/124231734  I think the main idea of this book is to inform the reader about Michael Vick's life and how he became a huge football star, and then how he lost it all. This book mostly focuses on his career from his point of view, and what he thought about his career and what was happening at that time.]]> 2016-09-16 00:16:52 UTC https://padlet.com/akostellic/1cs603ln4mek/wish/124231734 https://padlet.com/akostellic/1cs603ln4mek/wish/125734134 i think the main idea of this passage is to inform the reader about josh's life and how he hand]]> 2016-09-22 14:24:06 UTC https://padlet.com/akostellic/1cs603ln4mek/wish/125734134 https://padlet.com/akostellic/1cs603ln4mek/wish/125768557 The main idea is to inform the readers on the struggles that David had to survive and be strong while he was away from his brothers when are the only people he cares about. Also how he deals with being with a foster family.]]> 2016-09-22 15:36:50 UTC https://padlet.com/akostellic/1cs603ln4mek/wish/125768557