Author's Purpose Intro

A billboard asking voters to appoint Joe Santiago as Sanitation Commissioner

A Sunday comic strip that tackles serious issues like immigration and health care

The track listing to Miss Directed's album, I Want Pizza, which shows the order, length, and producer of each song

A menu for a local pizzeria listing the sizes and prices of pizzas and available toppings

The script for a TV commercial to be read by a celebrity telling viewers to make environmentally friendly decisions

A bookmark with facts about garbage (amount created each year, size of largest garbage pile, etc.)

The story of a garbage truck who has a hard time making friends

Instructions on how to make a compost pile

A poem about a garbage truck that uses a lot of onomatopoeia

A children's book about a cherry pie and an apple pie that overcome their differences to become good friends

A handbook teaching people how to negotiate

A pie graph showing how many pies were sold in each flavor during November last year

An article in a magazine comparing and contrasting waste management in New York City and Mexico City

A five-paragraph essay in which the author attempts to convince readers to recycle and be less wasteful

A song about pizza by popular music artist, Miss Directed

A short story about a boy who never cleans his room and the mess that accumulates

A bookmark by the American Dairy Association listing 10 reasons to drink milk

A stick on the trash compactor that shows how to operate it

A public service announcement asking kids to stay in school

A radio commercial script calling Miss Directed's new album, "The soundtrack of our lives."