Research

Notes:
Habitat

• "They prefer to be in deep oceans."  

• About 300 feet (90 meters) and 3,000 feet (over 900 meters)

• They prefer a temperature about 35 and 43 degrees  

Paraphrasing
The vampire squids prefer living in deep oceans. For example, it has to be at least 300 feet and 3,000 feet deep under the ocean. Vampire squids prefer a temperature at the minimum of 35 and 43 degrees.

Paraphrasing

Title: Miley Cyrus Article


Paragraph 1

Step 1: Notes

• Miley has crazy behavior
• Stars face pressure
• Everything they do= tweeted 

Step 2: Paraphrasing Paragraph
Miley has an insane behavior that makes her act all crazy. Stars face pressure and stress a lot.
Everything Miley does is tweeted.

Paragraph 2

Step 1: Notes

• Parades in ridiculous outfits
• Making a fool of herself
• Sticking her tongue
• Being gross

Step 2: Paraphrasing Paragraph
Miley goes around in ridiculous outfits. She makes a fool of herself by sticking her tongue out. Which people think is gross.

Topic and Main Idea

The topic of the article is that there was a tragedy in Kenya and we didn't really care about it until the attack in Paris. 

The main idea for the first paragraph is that "Several people quickly found an article on the attack by the British Broadcasting Corp." 

The main idea for the second paragraph is that "Many people feel that we react to terrible events differently on whom the victims are."

The main idea for the third paragraph is "People are more likely to care when terrible things happen to people and place to which they feel close." 

The main idea for the fourth paragraph is " It is that closeness to Paris that made so many Americans express their sadness and shock on Facebook and Twitter."

Author's POV+Purpose

1) What is the author's point of view?
The author's point of view is that people should care about the attack on Kenya. In the text it says "The attack in Kenya was just as terrible as what happened in Paris." Another evidence is "It does not matter that we do not have vacation photos taken in Kenya or Beirut. We do not get to ignore the horrible killings in those places." Another piece of evidence is "However, that does not mean it is right for us to care less." To not care less about Kenya. More people cared about Paris than Kenya.
2) Do you agree or disagree with the author's point of view? Why?
I agree because I think that we should care about what happened in Kenya. The reason I think that is because there was a lot of people killed.
3) What is the author's purpose?
The author's purpose is to persuade because it's trying to persuade you that you should care about Kenya. "For that reason is understandable that Americans did not react much to the killings in those places."

Author's point of view

Article "Group says whales should be freed to go home"
What is the author's point of view?
The author's point of view is that he doesn't want the orcas to be in danger for example Lolita the Orca.
Give three pieces of evidence to support your answer.
#1 "Some may try to force Seaquarium to free her, by arguing in court that it is now against the law to hold her."
#2 "However Seaquarium has no plans to release Lolita."

#3 "There are now fewer than 80 orcas left in the Puget Sound near Washington state.Because there are so few, they are protected by the government.

Article "SeaWorld will end orca shows, but some say park shouldn't keep whales"
What is the author's point of view?
That they should end the orca shows.

Give three pieces of evidence to support your answer.
#1 "Visitors would like to see the orcas act naturally rather than do tricks."
#2  "However, they said the marine park should not keep orcas at all."
#3 "California said that ending orca shows is a good first step."

Exciting Moment

In my text The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod, Vlad has a girlfriend. His girlfriend's name is Meredith. But D'Ablo is back but Vlad thought that he was dead because last time he saw him dead. So I predict that D'Ablo is planning something to kill Vlad. But he might be the Pravus which is impossible to kill. So D'Ablo asks Vlad for the journal of his dad but he refuses and D'Ablo said he is planning on killing him. I predict that he is the Pravus and he will beat D'Ablo. I believe that he is the Pravus because one time D'Ablo killed Vlad once but he came back to life. The Pravus never dies so that's why I think Vlad is the Pravus. Although the Pravus needs to be half human and half vampire which Vlad is.

Sensory Language

In my book The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod the sensory language is "He slipped his soiled shirt over his head". Also there is sensory language in "Nelly's face had gone completely white, and her eyes kept flitting from Vlad to Otis".  Sensory language makes the book more interesting because if it's just a simple sentence it will make that sentence boring. For example if it was Nelly's face got white it won't be as interesting.  Also he slipped his soiled shirt over his head makes it more interesting.