Current events#2

Date:11-12-11
Name: Julio Lopez
Current Events Journal#2
Title:A legacy of service:Three generations of Pines family have served in military.

Author:Perry Stein

Source: The Miami Herald

The topic of the article is:The topic is that you should always care about your family and country.

The main idea of the article is: The main idea is that you should never give up.implied.

The author’s purpose for writing this article is to show readers that people should never give up.

The author’s perspective in this article is subjective (biased) because:the article is subjective.The author is not baised.
The pattern of organization of the article is:In chronological order.

The reason the author chose this pattern for the article is so he can explain his life.

The text features included in the article are: Captions,pictures.
This article is about (a summary in your own words) The soldier that is 92 years-old.he was very brave. he got the purple heart,Bronze Star.He got hurt in his hand while he was bomb mines.He was very lucky and brave.
The significance (importance) of this article is that you should always keep going.

What I learned from this article is that a person should never give up.

What I liked about this article is that the 92 year old man did not give up and kept going.

What I did not like about it is nothing. I actually understood the whole article.

Who should read this article and why: you should read it because it is important to know that you should not give up.

This article reminds me of (text-to-self):I want to be a police which is kind of like a soldier.
(text-to-text): I have never read a text like this one.
(text-to-world):I know that some people are brave enough to be like him.
New vocabulary I learned
Word Context Clues Meaning
I understood all the words.This was not a hard article.