Current event # 4

Date: 1/7/12

Name: Juan Diaz 702

Current Events Journal

Title: Booking a flight to space.

Author: Kenneth Chang

Source: Miami Herald

The topic of the article is traveling to space 

The main idea of the article is: that in this year 2012, the company Virgin Galactic, and other companies is giving the opportunity for people to actually fly up into space. (Stated)

The author’s purpose for writing this article is to inform the reader of the opportunity that is to travel to space like if it was a regular flight.

The author’s perspective in this article is biased because it would only give the pros of going into space not the cons like how the high prices and other problems.

The pattern of organization of the article is argument and support because the author gave the topic of going to outer space and supported it with details.

The reason the author chose this pattern for the article is to give the reader a topic and then start giving information about.

The text features included in the article are: dashes which help give maybe side comments or meanings. Quotes that help state opinions of the people.

This article is about (a summary in your own words) this article is about Virgin galactic and other companies giving the opportunity of going to space.

The significance (importance) of this article is that it lets people know about how new tourism in space.

What I learned from this article is that finally the chance of going up into space is now for normal people.

What I liked about this article is that it explained that people in companies are letting tourists get the chance to go up into space.

What I did not like about it is that it made people pay a lot of money from 10 years before and they can’t go yet.

Who should read this article and why. Maybe people who want to go into space should read this article, so they could be informed. Also people with resistance because there will be sudden changes in gravity.

This article reminds me of (text-to-self) my mom who wanted to be an astronaut, so she can go up into space.

 (Text-to-text) This could be related to the book called “The Great Scientists” by John Fardon because scientists discovered space and so there was research to go there.

 (Text-to-world)I would compare this to the world because normal everyday people payed to go up into space.

New vocabulary I learned

Word Context Clues Meaning

1. Prominent       ‘… Virgin Galactic, the most prominent of the new space tourism…” most known

2. Hefty        “… or go to a travel agent and put down a hefty deposit.”   Expensive, a lot.

3. Allianz     “Allianz, a big insurer, will introduce a new insurance product in 2012”an insurance company