Exploring Our National Current Events

 LI: To identify author’s purpose.

                 

Authors write for a reason/purpose. These reasons are to persuade, inform or entertain (PIE). Each day, newspaper editors around the world make decisions about which stories they will run, to catch the readers attention, about whats going on. Haylee, Lukah, Azatullah, Tanisha, Leroy and I explored the different types of current events that are happening in New Zealand (nationally), thought about why the story made the news and plotted the location on a google map. We worked collaboratively and shared the stories we found and which category we think the story goes into. An article I found out interesting was about a women and her two children, who had died on state highway 35, Gisborne due to crashing into a tree.This was really interesting, as the women's partner and children's father had died on the same highway a month ago.