Current event # 3

Current Events Journal # 3
Title: Animal shelter's behavior experts face life and death decisions for animals
Author: Joan owens
Source:Miami Herald

The topic of the article is:

Animals in shelters dying because they are to wild.

The main idea of the article is:

Animals in shelters


The author’s purpose for writing this article is to:

To inform readers about dying animals in shelters

The pattern of organization of the article is

A pit bull who was going to die and to other animals.

The reason the author chose this pattern for the article is

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This article is about (a summary in your own words)

animals in shelters dying because of  their mental health

The significance (importance) of this article is

People will stop killing

What I learned from this article is

Animals in shelters don't really get a second chance in life

What I liked about this article

teached  me about animals

What I did not like about it:

Animals get killed

Who should read this article and why

To learn about shelters

This article reminds me of (text-to-self)

where I got my dog

(text-to-text)

Commercials about shelters.

(text-to-world)

Animals dying

New vocabulary I learned
Word Context Clues Meaning
1.dementia
2. evaluators
3.denunciation