Current event #4

Date: 1-9-12

Name: Shianne Salazar

Title:Booking a flight to space, With travel insurance

Author:Kenneth Chang

Source:?

The topic of the article is: Space

The main idea of the article is (stated) Booking a flight to space, with travel insurance.

The author’s purpose for writing this article is to inform people that by 2017 Virgin Galactic , it is expected for people to go into space just as if you are booking a flight. It does speak about other places such as XCOR, but the article focuses on Virgin Galactic.

The author’s perspective in this article is objective/subjective, objective, he does not put a side.

The pattern of organization of the article is: Factual

The reason the author chose this pattern for the article is: because he is just listing facts about the article, not putting an opinion.

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 booking a flight to space, it details about Ms. Culver, a woman who works with NASA that wanted to go up in space, she applied 4 times to become an astronaut but was declined all 4, so she is one of those people that will book a flight to space.

The significance (importance) of this article is that finally after years of thinking about going into space just like booking a flight will come as soon as 2013 ( XCOR).

What I learned from this article is that we are slowly but surely you leaping into the future, by enhancing the average person to be able to go with the space without the training of an astronaut.

What I liked about this article was the topic, I would've never thought that the average person would be able to go up into space,just as if they were booking a flight.

I didn't like the fact that it was badly organized, and the fact that there was no source.

The slightly wealthy people that are interested in going into space but are not interested in becoming an astronaut should read this article and find out how they can book a flight to space.

This article reminds me of (text-to-self) my sister who always wanted to go for the space but never one to become an astronaut.

(Text-to-text) I didn't know anything about these plans XCOR, Virgin Galactic, and Space Adventures we're making plans to let anyone as long as they can afford it go up with the space as if they were booking a flight.

(text-to-world) it is at least good to know ( from limited time only though) XCOR, Virgin Galactic, and Space Adventures will refund him with all the deposits if someone wants to cancel.

New vocabulary:

Word:                                                  Clue: Meaning:

cancellations last-minute cancellations could reserving something and then backing out of it