Step 1. Choose five (5) articles or short stories. Choose at least two different genres. In other words, do not choose only short articles or only short stories.

Choose selections that illustrate a different author's purpose. Do not choose only 'inform' or 'entertain' for all of your choices.

Step 2. Provide this information for each selection:

the web site of the selection

author

title

genre

summary of the selection (a paragraph of 7-10 sentences)

the author's purpose with justification for your reasons

Twenty years gone, and i am back again on my own island. as for my change of skin, that is a charm athena, hope of soldiers, uses as she will; she has the knack to make me seem a beggar man sometimes and sometimes young, with finer clothes about me. it is no hard thing for the gods of heaven to glorify a man or bring him low. —the odyssey, homer based on what odysseus says in the passage, what has he learned? humans can become like gods. humans are under the gods’ control. humans can change from beggars to soldiers.

What experience makes wind-wolf want to stop attending school?

What happens to lovers when there are decreased levels of serotonin in the brain?