Outline the structure of the classification paragraph in the space provided below. authors typically write for one of four purposes. writers write to inform readers, that is, to give them information about something. writers write to inspire or persuade readers to believe or act. they sometimes write to express emotion and strong feelings. they also write to delight or entertain their readers. the purposes of a writer are not neatly separated. often, a single passage can include one, two, or all of these purposes. topic sentence: purpose 1: purpose 2: purpose 3: purpose 4: concluding statement:

the outline of the paragraph is the following:

topic sentence: it summarizes the idea of subject of a paragraph.

"authors typically write for one of four purposes."

purpose 1: first reason to support the claim of the topic sentence.

"writers write to inform readers, that is, to give them information about something."

purpose 2: second piece of evidence to reinforce the topic sentence.

"writers write to inspire or persuade readers to believe or act."

purpose 3: third proof to justify claim.

"they sometimes write to express emotion and strong feelings."

purpose 4: evidence number four that backs the affirmation in the topic sentence.

"they also write to delight or entertain their readers."

concluding statement: it summarizes the reasons and the thesis statement from introduced in the topic sentence and after it, and sometimes leaves the reader something to think about.

"the purposes of a writer are not neatly separated. often, a single passage can include one, two, or all of these purposes."

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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