My Summer Reading Assignment: Five Articles you should read.Badwater Ultra marathon Tests the Limits of Human Endurance

This is an article which outlines the challenge which runners set themselves to test the maximum of human endurance. The annual event, a 135 mile race, starts in Badwater, California one of the hottest places in the world with temperatures which can reach highs of 120-130 Fahrenheit. As if this wasn´t hard enough participants have to complete the race in under 48 hours.

1) What was the most interesting thing that you learned from reading this article, and why? Explain.

The most interesting thing I learned from this article is that people do extreme things to accomplish their dream, it is very impressing.

5) What new insight into the world did you gain through this article, and how will it impact your way of thinking or behaving? Explain.

A new insight I gained with this article is that people are really extreme sometimes, and it made me think... maybe I will run that marathon one day.

• Whopping: an adjective that describes something which is extremely large.

• Grueling: An adjective that describes that something is very exhausting or requires lots of effort.

Polar Bears in Peril

This article reminds us of the importance of ice for saving the polar bears. Each year the mortality of polar bears is increasing in a worrying way. Scientists want the people to be conscious about the situation of the polar bears now-a-days. They are working with zoos to make polar bear exhibitions in zoos around the world. We can help the cause by turning off the lights, recycling and being aware of the environment. I can connect this article with a situation that is happening in my country.

2) If applicable: What caused this event, and/or what are the effects of this event? Explain.

I think an event that caused this event is global warming in our world melting the ice.

4) Can you connect this event to something similar that has happened around you? (Has something like this happened to you, your family, your community, or your country?) Explain.

In Yasuni a national park in the Amazon region of Ecuador, being the place in the world with more biodiversity per square km, the government is trying get petroleum from there but there is campaign that tries to prevent it.

• Plight: A noun that means a very hard situation.

• Appliances: Any tool or device that has a function.

To the Moon!

This article talks about how two congresswoman of the United States of America are attempting to make the Apollo 11 landing site on the moon a national park. According to the congresswoman Donna Edwards and Eddie Bernice Johnson, these lunar sites of the Apollo missions should be preserved because they are important heritage sites for the history of the U.S.A. But this motion is not so easy to pass, now being processed in the congress it is disputed because in 1967 the U.S signed a treaty with the Soviet Union that established that no country could own the moon.

3) Who was involved? What was their role? (Who or what is the article about, and what is it that he/she/it did that is news worthy). Explain.

The people involved in this event were the congresswoman Donna Edwards and Eddie Bernice Johnson that are trying to make Apollo missions landing sites a national park to remark these important chapters of American history.

5) What new insight into the world did you gain through this article, and how will it impact your way of thinking or behaving? Explain.

That sometimes can be a little selfish, because reclaiming another planet for one country will be very unfair to the other 197 countries of the world, and at the same time they will be violating a treaty.

• Proactive: An adjective that describes something or someone that makes something before it has to be done.

• Unmanned: An adjective that describes a noun that lacks a human crew.

Tornado Country

This article points out the huge impact of the tornadoes in the United States of America. For many years the Tornado Alley, in the United States. Since the middle 20th century, about fifty thousand tornadoes had stroked in the U.S. Scientists are trying make people conscious of the situation of the tornadoes yet that it could be mortal.

4) Can you connect this event to something similar that has happened around you? (Has something like this happened to you, your family, your community, or your country?) Explain.

I went to visit my aunt in a vacation and the hurricane Wilma stroke Miami and a neighbor of my aunt went missing.

1) What was the most interesting thing that you learned from reading this article, and why? Explain.

That tornadoes can happen anywhere and anytime.

• Vacuum: A noun that means a place with nothing in it.

• Swirling: A noun that means something with a twister or coned shape.

Women Flying High

This is an article about this history of woman in space, in the 1960´s Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman going to space. She came from a very humble family, and her interest in parachute jumping, made a new recruit for the Russian government. When she came back became really famous and she works for the Russian government. Now-a-days Karen Nyberg and Wang Yaping are some of the woman that explore the mysteries of the Cosmos.

3) Who was involved? What was their role? (Who or what is the article about, and what is it that he/she/it did that is news worthy). Explain.

Valentina Tereshkova was the main character in the article, she is probably one of the most important woman figures in history, but unfortunately not a lot of people know about her.

2) If applicable: What caused this event, and/or what are the effects of this event? Explain.

This caused a very important accomplishment for the woman gender of the earth.

Word Definitions:

Vacuum: A noun that means a place with nothing in it. Swirling: A noun that means something with a twister or coned shape. Cockpit: The place in an aircraft for a pilot. Module: A part of something with a specific function.

MLA

Bubar, Joe. “Tornado Country” Scholastic News. Scholastic Inc. May 6, 2013. Web. August 9, 2013.

Chan, Justin. “To the Moon!” TIME FOR KIDS. Time Inc. July 24, 2013. Web. August 9, 2013.

Dolasia, Meera. “Badwater Ultramarathon Tests The Limits Of Human Endurance.”DOGOnews. DOGO Media, Inc. July 26, 2013. Web. August 9, 2013.

Winchester, Elizabeth. “Polar Bears in Peril.” TIME FOR KIDS. Time Inc. November 02, 2012. Web. August 9, 2013.

Abrams, Abby. “Women Flying High” TIME FOR KIDS. Time Inc. June 17, 2013. Web. August 9, 2013.

Links for the articles:

http://www.dogonews.com/2013/7/26/badwater-ultramarathon-tests-the-limits-of-human-endurance

http://www.timeforkids.com/news/moon/98146

http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3758124

http://www.timeforkids.com/news/women-flying-high/96531

http://www.timeforkids.com/news/polar-bears-peril/86701