Current Event #3

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

Author: by john Owens

Source: Miami Herald

The topic of the article is Animals behavior

The main idea of the article is: how animals are loosing their lives because of aggression to others

The author’s purpose for writing this article is to inform readers on animals around that are loosing their lives. (Implied)

The pattern of organization of the article is argument and support.

 The reason the author chose this pattern for the article is because it says that they are killing dogs and reason why.

The text features included in the article are: Topic

The topic helps by telling you what the following passage will be about This article is about how animal who aren’t qualified as harmless animals are killed. Mostly for aggression. The story also included that 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

Current Events Journal The significance (importance) of this article is that animals are loosing lives only because they are not applicable for adoption.

What I learned from this article is that 7,400 dogs and 11,000 cats died.

 What I liked about this article is that all of the information was accurate and all of my questions were easily answered.

What I did not like about it  was that in the middle of reading it was very sad and I just couldn’t believe what was happening.

People over 13 years old should read this article because the information must be taken maturely and they might also read it and think about it a different way.

This article reminds me of (text-to-self) when my friend David when he lost his dog for to much aggression.

(text-to-text) This article reminds me of the book buddy when the dog dies for trying to save his 6 doggies.

(text-to-world) this article reminds me of all the crazy pit bulls in the world who always bite humans.

There were no words in this article that I didn’t understand.