Current Events Journal
Title:
Author: PERRY STEIN
Source: Miami Herald
The topic of the article is honor at its finest
The main idea of the article is: Bolivar Perez Rios is honored with medals for diffusing mines and being blown by one and surviving. The main idea is stated in the article.
(implied/stated)
The author’s purpose for writing this article is to inform our nation of what great accomplishments our fighters have completed and how far they go to protect our country. He did that by giving an example.
The author’s perspective in this article is objective/subjective (biased) because he is for our veterans and the holiday that follows.
The pattern of organization of the article is chronological order because the article shows how he and then his generations after him served in the army.
The reason the author chose this article is because people this age do not realize how dangerous it is in the army and all the brave people who join in order to protect our country.
The text features included in the article are a photograph of a veteran which helps by showing our servers to the country and what they do.
Also a caption under the photo and that helps by showing exactly what is happening in the photo.
This article is about (a summary in your own words) a veteran who shares his stories about a time where he diffused mines except for one which went off. The stories inspired his children and grandchildren to join the army and serve their country. Now he is being honored with many medals including a purple heart.
The significance (importance) of this article is great. The amount of important duties our servers have done for our country is not appreciated enough and that is what this article is trying to say by giving an example.
What I learned from this article is that our veterans support our country, so we should support them.
What I liked about this article is that it made a point by giving an example and justifying it.
What I did not like about it is that it should have been more interesting and suspensful, not boring.
Who should read this article and why? Kids should read this article because they need to learn about our veterans and the army.
This article reminds me of (text-to-self) my dad because he is a veteran.
(text-to-text) This article reminds me of other war books that have to do with world war 2.
(text-to-world) This article reminds me of the killing of Osama Bin Laden.
New vocabulary I learned
Word Context Clues Meaning
I did not find any tricky words although some which were did not have that many context clues.
Date:11/13/11
Name: Isaac Paley
No comments:
Post a Comment