Current Event #5

Date: 1/15/12

Name: Adi Binyamin

                                                     

Title:  To Preserve History on the Moon, Visitors Are Asked to Tread Lightly.

Author:  Kenneth Chang.

Source:  The New York Times.

The topic of the article is to keep history on the Moon.

 The main of this article is: implied/stated) To preserve History on the Moon, Visitors Are Asked to Tread Lightly. The main idea is stated.

The author’s purpose for writing this article is to inform readers of how professors and NASA people are trying to keep artifacts and footprints on the moon from being damaged.

The author’s perspective in this article is subjective because he doesn’t include both sides of preserving history on the moon, he only shares with the reader the positive things of why we should keep the footprints on the moon from the astronauts that landed on it.

The pattern of organization of the article is cause and effect because the author states what accomplishments previous astronauts did when they landed on the moon (cause), and now how professors like Beth L. O’Leary called Dr. Donaldson to help protect American artifacts that were kept on the moon (effect).

The reason the author chose this pattern for the article is to show the readers how a huge accomplishment that was on landing on the moon which is the cause, got people thinking that this is truly a big success and those first footprints on the moon should be preserved forever in space which is the effect.

The text features included in the article are: The title, to help us identify the main idea of the article, and different quotes the author put of what professors said about preserving artifacts on the moon and how they are going to do that.

This article is about (a summary in your own words)  How archaeologists  are sending sites to space to  preserve footprints on the moon. For the Apollo 11, first landers Neil Armstrong and Buzz, any robotic or human has to stay 75 meters from the landers, and for the Apollo 17 made by Eugene A. Ceran and Harrison H. Schmitt, their protection is 225 meters.

The significance (importance) of this article is to show the readers how archaeologists, professors, and NASA people truly care about the mission to the moon made by Neil Armstrong, Buzz, Eugene A. Ceran, and Harrison H. Schmitt that they send sites up to the moon to preserve the items and footprints by those astronauts.

What I learned from this article is that there’s actual machines that can preserve things that occurred on the moon from previous astronauts. I also learned that Neil Armstrong wasn’t alone when he landed on the moon, but he had someone with while doing this accomplishment. I also learned that after Neil and Buzz, astronauts, Eugene and Harrison also landed on the moon after them.

What I liked about this article is that the author included quotes that different professors said about keeping history on the moon.  I think that mentioning quotes in the article was very helpful because that way the readers know the opinions and sayings that those people said about preserving artifacts on the moon.

What I did not like about it is that there wasn’t any pictures in the article that described what was written in it. I’m a visualizer and if there were photos on the side of the page, that would have helped me understand the story better.

Who should read this article and why : People who are interested in NASA and  in what happens in space everyday should read this article because they would like to find that the first landing on the moon that happened about 40 years ago, footprints and items that are on there, is being preserved hopefully forever to honor Neil, Buzz, Eugene, and Harrison for being the first ones to land on the moon.

This article reminds me of (text-to-self) because I was just learning about the moon and NASA in science class and we did discuss how those four astronauts were the first ones to land on the moon. For more information, I was excited to know that now what happened on the moon is being preserved.

(text-to-text) A book that I read that reminds me of the article is Ilan Ramon because in the book, it talked about NASA launches and different things that happened to it at that time including the first Apollo 11 launch to the moon made by Neil Armstrong and Buzz.

(text-to-world) This article is similar to the world because there’s a lot of things that are happening to NASA and in space in everyday life. Also, a lot of archaeologists and professors that associate with NASA, send technology to space to keep important memories that happened back then in space.

Word	Context Clues	Meaning
1 Registry	The registry for New Mexico lists the same things.	Registration
2. Obliterating	Against obliterating some part of the archaeological record.	Disobeying something.
3. Heritage	I think it’s humanity’s heritage.	Culture/tradition