Current Event Journal #4 -January,5,2012

Title: Booking a Flight to Space, With Travel Insurance to go to outer space, Catherine Culver went to a travel agent.

Author: Kenneth Chang.

Source:  Google

The topic of the article is: in 2012 you can fly to space to see everything and it’s the same thing as booking a flight to other place on Earth.

The main idea of the article is: Booking a Flight to Space, With Travel Insurance to go to outer space, Catherine Culver went to a travel agent.(Implied/stated)

The author’s purpose for writing this article is to: inform because it lets you know what’s going on in the world.

The author’s perspective in this article is objective/subjective (biased) because  its different people’s opinions.

The pattern of organization of the article is: compare and contrast.

The reason the author chose this pattern for the article is:  to compare the real flights to places on earth and contrast the flights to space.

The text features included in the article are:  Space, Flights, and Earth.

 Flights helps by earth

  Space helps by earth

 lights helps by space

This article is about (a summary in your own words):  This article is about people are going to take flights to space, and Its going to be  just like regular flights to other places on Earth.

The significance (importance) of this article is that money is worth everything, and don’t treat it like its nothing.

What I learned from this article is

What I liked about this article: money is very important and that it’s fun to take a flight to Earth.

What I did not like about it: I actually liked the whole article it was really interesting.

Who should read this article and why: I think mostly adults should read it because it would interest them more.

(text-to-self): this reminds me of the time i went on a flight to israel.

(text-to-text): this reminds me of a science book i read in my science class.

(text-to-world): this reminds me of the time i saw a telescope so i thought of the moon.

New vocabulary I learned:

Word	Context Clues	Meaning
1. prominent	You can sign up on the Web site of, say, Virgin Galactic, the most prominent of the new space tourism companies, or go to a travel agent and put down a hefty deposit.	Nice view or good quality place.
2.weightlessness	featuring five minutes of weightlessness during a two and-a-half hour jaunt.	When you lose weight or get rid of something.
3. culminate	For Virgin’s customers the ride to space will culminate a three-day trip to the newly built Spaceport America in Las.	Delete something or ignore it.