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Activists Save Chinese Dogs From Cooking Pot (1590L)

Instructions: COMPLETE ALL QUESTIONS AND MARGIN NOTES

Questions: Answer in COMPLETE SENTENCES unless otherwise instructed. Lists and charts are the

exception and may be answered in phrases.

Read the following article carefully and make notes in the margin as you read.

Your notes should include:

o Comments that show that you understand the article. (A summary or statement of the main

idea of important sections may serve this purpose.)

o Questions you have that show what you are wondering about as you read.

o Notes that differentiate between fact and opinion.

o Observations about how the writer’s strategies (organization, word choice, perspective,

support) and choices affect the article.

Your margin notes are part of your score for this assessment.

Student _________________________________Class Period______________________

Notes on my thoughts,

Activists Save Chinese Dogs From

reactions and questions as I

read:

Cooking Pot

BEIJING (AFP) – Hundreds of dogs being trucked to Chinese

restaurants were spared a culinary fate after about 200 animal lovers

mobilized to stop them ending up on dinner tables, state-run media

said Monday.

A truck crammed with the dogs was forced to stop Friday on a

highway in eastern Beijing by a motorist who swerved his car in

front of the truck and then used his microblog to alert animal-rights

activists, reports said.

The dogs, many apparently stolen from their owners, were being

transported from the central Chinese province of Henan to

restaurants in Jilin province in the northeast, the China Daily said. It

said 430 dogs were rescued, while the Global Times put the number

at 520.

Eventually, about 200 animal lovers and activists gathered around

the truck in eastern Beijing and after a 15-hour standoff that jammed

traffic the dogs were freed early Saturday when an animal-protection

Activists Save Chinese Dogs From Cooking Pot (1590l) - Middle School Reading Article Worksheet