Current Event #3

Date: 12-11-11
Name:Alexander Yan
Current Events Journal #3
Title: Animal shelter's behavior experts face life and death decisions for animals
Author:John Owens
Source: The Miami Herald
The topic of the article is animal shelter death
The main idea of the article is: That in the Anti-cruelty shelter for animals in Chicago faces life or death decisions for animals. This is stated.
The author’s purpose for writing this article is to inform the reader about what the animal shelter has to do to check the animals behavior.
The author’s perspective in this article is objective/subjective (not biased) because it doesn't talk about any of their opinions.
The pattern of organization of the article is flashback.
The reason the author chose this pattern for the article is because it talks about what they did to an animal  then what they are doing to animals now.
The text features included in the article are: Quotes, and they help by expressing the animal shelter employees. Examples, and they help by letting the reader know what they are talking about more clearly.

This article is about (a summary in your own words) dog that have to be put down just because of their behavior. Animal experts try to train them, but if they can't they have to kill the animal.
The significance (importance) of this article is that animals die just because of their behavior.
What I learned from this article is that 7,400 dogs and 11,000 cats are killed every year because of their behavior.
What I liked about this article is that it is very informative. They do this by putting an example in the beginning.
What I did not like about it is that their are no
Who should read this article and why animal owners should read this article because it is about animals in animal shelters.
This article reminds me of (text-to-self) when I had a kitty , but gave it away to a person because I didn't know how to take care of it.
(text-to-text) This reminds me of a story in Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul. They had to leave their dog at home but came up with the idea of letting different people bring it to them.
(text-to-world) Many animals will go through this process.
New vocabulary I learned
Word Context Clues Meaning
1.euthanized- to put down/kill
2.triage- to try
3.acclimate- get used to