Date: 1-13-12
Name: Alexander Yan 602
Current Events Journal
Title: To Preserve History on the Moon, Visitors are Asked to Tread Lightly
Author: Kenneth Chang
Source: The New York Times
The topic of the article is preserve history on moon.
The main idea of the article is: That a teacher is asked by a student what happens to
the footprint on the moon by the first people on the moon after people started visiting it. The teacher then realized that a piece of human history can be destroyed and tells many corporations including NASA to prohibit people going too close to the lunar lander and the footprints. This is stated.
The author’s purpose for writing this article is to inform the reader about the rules put down by NASA to protect human history.
The author’s perspective in this article is objective/subjective (biased) because subjective because he doesn’t talk about the people wanting to get close to the landing site.
The pattern of organization of the article is
The reason the author chose this pattern for the article is
The text features included in the article are: the title. This helps by letting the reader know what the story is going to be about.
This article is about (a summary in your own words) protecting the historical artifacts on the moon. A teacher, Dr. O’Leary, was asked does federal preservation acts apply to the moon. The teacher then realized that it was important to preotect te human history left there. She and a person named Mr. Donaldson contacted many organizations and all turned her down flatly. Mr. Donaldson thought protecting the artifacts was a great idea. He checked California’s laws and found that the artifacts had and association with the state to be preserved. Then NASA thought this was a good idea and made a perimeter around the moon where nobody can go. 75 meters from the lander and 225 meters for the Apollo 17 mission.
The significance (importance) of this article is that people are protecting pieces of human history.
What I learned from this article is that people now have to stay away from the Apollo mission landing sites. I also learned about Tranquility Base and that it is on the moon.
What I liked about this article is that it tells now people will preserve the artifacts and things on the moon.
What I did not like about it is that it doesn’t talk about the Apollo Missions. It would be helpful to those who don’t know about it.
Who should read this article and why Everybody should read this article because it talks about the preservation of human history.
This article reminds me of (text-to-self) the pictures I saw online of Earth taken from the moon.
(text-to-text) I can relate this to the newspaper article about travel to space with travel insurance because both related to rich people going to space.
(text-to-world) I can relate this to the world because this is actually real. People are preserving the things on the moon.
New vocabulary I learned
Word Context Clues Meaning
1. sanction “It’s a sea change for NASA to come out with recommendations,” Dr. O’Leary said. “I think that the guidance you provide certainly strengthens the moral sanctions against obliterating some part of the archaeological record.” Meaning: disagreement
2. farfetched Suddenly, the prospect of a new little rover’s rolling over Neil Armstrong’s footprints was not entirely farfetched. Meaning: liked
3.formal
For most of the last decade, the effort by Dr. O’Leary and her students to seek formal protection for the
Apollo sites was a lonely pursuit. NASA, by its nature, looks more to its future than its past. “There’s a
tendency of NASA, when their programs end, they tend to get rid of everything,” said Milford Wayne
Donaldson, the historic preservation officer for California. Meaning: legal
No comments:
Post a Comment