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Zuckerberg’s Dinners with Girlfriend Help Spur Life-Saving Facebook Tool (1330L)

Instructions: COMPLETE ALL QUESTIONS AND MARGIN NOTES

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.

Answer the questions carefully in complete sentences unless otherwise instructed.

Student ____________________________Class Period__________________

Notes on my thoughts,

Zuckerberg's Dinners with Girlfriend Help Spur Life-Saving

reactions and questions as I

Facebook Tool

read:

Conversations over the dinner table with his med-student girlfriend helped Mark Zuckerberg

formulate his latest big idea -- harnessing the power of Facebook to help eliminate the

critical shortage of organs for patients desperately in need of life-saving transplants. And it

was his friendship with Apple founder Steve Jobs, whose life was extended by years

following a liver transplant, in part, that spurred the 27-year-old Facebook founder and CEO

to help put that idea into practice.

"Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories... We think that people can

really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to

their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that's out there,"

Zuckerberg told ABC's Robin Roberts in an exclusive interview at the company's

headquarters.

Starting today, users in the United States and U.K. will be able to add that they're organ

donors to their Timelines, and if they're not organ donors, they can find links to official

organ donation registries and instantly enroll. "We want to make it simple," said

Zuckerberg. "You just put in the state or country that you're from, so that we can help link

you to the official registries."

In the "health and wellness" section of users' timelines, users can list their status as organ

donors and explain the decision to their friends, in an effort to raise awareness about the

need for donors. More than 112,000 Americans are awaiting organs, and 18 people die every

day from the lack of available organs, according to Donate Life America, a nonprofit

alliance that is partnering with Facebook.

Newsmakers, ABC News, Zuckerberg’s dinners with girlfriend help spur life-saving Facebook tool. Available at abcnews.

com. May 1, 2012.

Zuckerberg'S Dinners With Girlfriend Help Spur Life-Saving Facebook Tool (1330l) - Middle School Reading Article Worksheet