current event #3

Date: 12-9-11

Name: Shianne Salazar

Title:Animal shelter's behavior experts face life and death decisions for animal

Author: JOHN OWENS

Source:Miami Herald

The topic of the article is: mistreatment

The main idea of the article is (stated) Animal shelter's behavior experts face life and death decisions for animal

The author’s purpose for writing this article is to inform people about the harm done in animal shelters.

The author’s perspective in this article is objective/subjective ( biased) he argues both sides, however, he does not use words like “I” and “ME”. But he does put his opinion in.

The pattern of organization of the article is argument and support, it is this because, the author states his argument with facts. 

The reason the author chose this pattern for the article is argument and support because,  he lists his argument/opinion then puts in facts to support it. 

The text features included in the article are: the title to give you a little inside about what it will be about. And quotes from others.

This article is about animal behavior specialist mistreating the animals at the shelters, and then see that after the fact the animals are unsuitable for adoption, then put to death. About the harm done in animal shelters.

The significance (importance) of this article is that the public needs to be informed about the mistreated animals at shelters, it's not fair to the animals, basically what the “specialists” are taking the animals hurting them, then decide that there not good enough for adoption.

What I learned from this article is that animals are being mistreated at shelters, and the specialist think they know what their doing by giving, quote-on-quote: Demeaning. Unnecessary.

What I liked about this article is that, the author gives a strong opinion with good facts to support his opinions.

I didn't like the fact that the article had no pictures.

People that love animals should read this article, so that they can know what goes on at these shelters ( the article even states that there is a Anti-Cruelty Society) so maybe they can do something about it. And I think behavioral specialist should read this too, so they can for them selves how bad to worse this has really gotten since 27years ago.

This article reminds me of (text-to-self) my dog, Cookie, and how horrible I would feel to see that she is would be mistreated then be put to death , its just sad.

(Text-to-text) I never knew about this, and I am glad I am now informed with this information. (text-to-world) This is something that goes on at most likely every animal shelter , nation wide. This is a big problem, that is still going on.

New vocabulary:

Word:                               Clue:                         Meaning:

Incompatible          nothing more heartbreaking        not in harmony