CURRENT EVENT #2

Date: 11/13/11

Name: Roxanne Fine

Title: A Legacy of Service: Three Generations of Pines family have served in military                                                                                                                                    

Author: Perry Stein                                                

Source: Miami Herald

The topic of the article is loyalty.

The main idea of the article is stated because the main idea of this article is to show how a family have served in the military for three generations. The main idea of this article is implied.

                                                                                                                                                                              The author’s purpose for writing this article is to inform readers about the soldiers that care about the country such as Bolivar Perez – Rios’s family.

The author’s perspective in this article is objective/subjective (biased) because: The author’s perspective in this article is objective (unbiased) because the author of this article did not include any opinions or was not in favor of anybody in this article.

The pattern of organization of this article is flashback.                                                            

The reason the author chose this pattern for this article is because the author might of wanted to describe what position Bolivar Perez –Rio was in at the time.

The text features included in this article are: One text feature that I found in this article is a photograph of Bolivar saluting along with his son and grandson. This text feature helps the readers by showing how much Bolivar and his family cares about the military. Another text feature that I found was a caption. The caption helps people understand what is going on in the photograph and what the photograph means.

This article is about (a summary in your own words) this article is about a inspiring 92 year old man which is Bolivar Perez-Rios who is fond of the military and has experience in the military. He inspired his family to go in to the military.

The significance (importance) of this article is that the readers can know about the people who are protecting them.

What I learned from this article is that there was a bombing on Dec 7, 1941 of the Perl Harbor.

What I liked about this article is that this article was easy to understand and was interesting.

What I did not like about this article was that the article didn’t really describe what happened after an experience.

 Who should read this article and why: I think everyone should read this article because this article shows you how much people in the military do to keep there country safe.

This article reminds me of (text-to-self) I can’t really relate this article to myself. I do not know any books with this topic. This article related to the world because I don’t really think people appreciate the people that are risking their lives for their nation.

New vocabulary I learned

   

    Word                             Context Clues                                   Meaning

1. Platoon              I reread it many times          A sub division of a company of soldiers

2. Shrapnel                        infered                                      fragments of a bomb

3.Comprised          Looked at the words next to                         consist of