*Charting Author's Purpose (W 30)
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Read the article "Measles: A Dangerous Illness" by Roald Dahl
Now briefly respond to these questions.
1) How did you react to this piece of writing?
2) What images did it conjure up for you?
3) What feelings did it leave you with?
4) What personal connections can you make?
5) What questions do you have?

Diego rivera was a famous artist from mexico. most of his paintings were murals. murals are paintings that are made directly on a wall. rivera thought that all people should be able to see beautiful art, not just people who could afford to go to museums. this is why he painted most of his murals on the walls of public buildings

Read these excerpts. lincoln's "gettysburg address." it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. whitman's "o captain! my captain! ". exult, o shores, and ring, o bells! but i, with mournful tread, walk the deck my captain lies, fallen cold and dead. which rhetorical appeal do both excerpts use? logos: the use of logic to convince the audience pathos: the use of emotional appeals to affect the audience’s feelings brevity: writing or speaking that is short, brief, and to the point ethos: the use of authority to persuade the audience to act the right way

What is the effect of the haiku structure on this poem?   how does the line structure describe the subject(s)?   and how does a haiku compare to a rhyming and longer poem in terms of its effect on you as a reader?