Date: 11-13-11
Name: Mikey Rogatinsky
Current Events Journal
Title: A legacy of service: Three generations of Pines family have served in military
Author: Perry Stein
Source: The Miami herald
The topic of the article is: Family loyalty
The main idea of the article is: A family of veterans
stated
The author’s purpose for writing this article is to inform
The author’s perspective in this article is: subjective (biased)
The pattern of organization of the article is flash backs
The reason the author chose this pattern for the article is it talks about his past
The text features included in the article are: image, and caption witch helps by giving an idea of what they are like
This article is about A family of veterans
The significance (importance) of this article is they are veterans and it was veterans day
What I learned from this article is veterans children generally join the army
What I liked about this article is it’s very descriptive
What I did not like about it is it only tells the grandpas stores
Who should read this article and why adults, because it’s from The Miami herald
This article reminds me of the book Griffins daughter, because the grandpa, dad, and son are in the army (text-to-text)
New vocabulary I learned
| | Word | Context Clues | Meaning |
| 1 | imbued | imbued him with | filled with |
| 2 | shrapnel | shrapnel bit by bit | shell fragments |
| 3 | indoctrinated | was indoctrinated to | instruct |
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