curnt event #3

Current Events Journal # 3                                                       12/11/12

Title: Animal shelter’s behavior experts face and death decisions for animals

Author: John Owens

Source: The Miami Herald

The topic of the article is Animal’s Life

The main idea of the article is Animal shelter’s behavior experts face and death decisions for animals

The author’s purpose for writing this article is to inform use about what happens to animals in animal shelters

The author’s perspective in this article is subjective because he says opinions

The pattern of organization of the article is flashback because it starts in present day and then talks about the past

The reason the author chose this pattern for the article is to give examples

The text features included in the article are:

Title: Tells you the main idea,   Dialogue: shows that people are having a conversation, and parenthesis: more specific, for example “She also demonstrated an extreme level of stress…and (was) unable to settle herself when left alone.” 

This article is about animals put to death because they are unsuitable for adoption

The significance of this article is we need to know what happens in animal shelters every year.

 What I learned from this article is to what’s happening in animal shelters.

What I liked about this article is that it talks about animals

What I did not like about it is that lots of animals get put to sleep

I think everyone should read this article

This article reminds me of Mrs. Zrihen’s dog, Shemesh

This article reminds me of the book Dogs

This article reminds me of animals

New vocabulary I learned

Word Context Clues Meaning

Euthanized	They run animals through a series of behavioral tests, and those who pass can move on to adoption, while those who fail may be euthanized, joining the 7,400 dogs and 11,000 cats put to death at Chicago shelters annually.	Put to sleep
Advocacy	"The reason we're here is because we love and respect animals, and we understand the stress that they're under coming to a shelter environment, so they need to have some sort of advocacy,"	The act or process of advocating or supporting a cause or proposal
Condemns	"What was once a tool to flush out aggression in a potentially dangerous dog is now a weapon that condemns the average dog,"	Wrong or evil