Date:1/08/12
Name: Roxanne Fine
Current Events Journal
Title: Booking a Flight to Space, With Travel Insurance
Author: Kenneth Chang
Source: Unknown
The topic of the article is: Space Tourism
The main idea of the article is: I think the main idea is booking a flight to space. The main idea is stated.
The author’s purpose for writing this article is to: the author’s purpose is to inform.
The author’s perspective in this article is objective/subjective (biased) because: is objective because the article showed both sides of the story.
The pattern of organization of the article is: classification order
The reason the author chose this pattern for the article is: because it would make understanding the article easier.
The text features included in the article are: Quotes which means that the author used other peoples personal opinion. Another text feature that I found in this article was the title of the book. The title helped me by telling me what I was reading about.
This article is about (a summary in your own words): This article is about how Virgin Galactic are creating an airline that lets regular people go in to the threshold of space with out being an astronaut.
The significance (importance) of this article is: the significance of this article is that the people that have the money could go to space and fulfill there dreams.
What I learned from this article is: I learned that regular people have gone in to the threshold of space before but the seats cost a lot of money. A seat cost $110,000 at Space Adventures Ltd of Vienna, Va.
What I liked about this article: I liked that this article provided quotes because I think it is a good thing that people that are reading about this are hearing other peoples opinion who are customers.
What I did not like about it: I didn’t like that this article didn’t not include any pictures or illustrations.
Who should read this article and why: I think people who are interested in outer space should read this article because then they might learn about the project and they might get a chance to go in a space craft.
This article reminds me of: This book reminds me of the book Star Secker: A Journey to Outer Space by Theresa Heine and Victor Tavares. This article reminds me of when the first man went to the moon. This article reminds me of the time when I wanted to go to outer space so I created a space craft out of a card board box and I collected $5 from any one who wanted to go to on the space craft.
Word context clue meaning
1.threshold context clue #5 the beginning
2. Jaunt. Context clue# a short journey
3. Grandiosity context clue # good appearance or style
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