Tuesday, January 10, 2012

current event #4

Date: 1-8-12

Name: Julio Lopez

Current Events Journal #4

Title: Booking a flight to space, with a travel Insurance

Author: Kenneth Chang

Source: Does not say

The topic of the article is that To go to space Catherine culver went to a travel agent                                                                                                                   The main idea of the article is: stated in the title.

The author’s purpose for writing this article is to entertain the reader.

The author’s perspective in this article is subjective  because he talks about 2 sides.

The pattern of organization of the article is in time order.

The reason the author chose this pattern for the article is to explain better.

The text features included in the article are:  quotes

This article is about (a summary in your own words)    This is about booking a flight to space with a travel agent. New air lines is taking people to space in 2012.    

The significance (importance) of this article is to entertain the reader.

What I learned from this article is that  ordinary people are able to go to space.

What I liked about this article is that it explains a lot.

What I did not like about it is that it did not have any pictures to explain.

Who should read this article and why it will teach me new things.

This article reminds me of (text-to-self) none

(text-to-text)I read an article like this on Neil Armstrong.

(text-to-world) Lots of people would want to go to space.

New vocabulary I learned

Word Context Clues Meaning

1.threshold-The first flight  of the new airlines is going to take tourists past the thresholds of space are poised to take off in 2012.- atmosphere

2.poised- The first flight  of the new airlines is going to take tourists past the thresholds of space are poised to take off in 2012.supposed to

3.None.

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