Niugen Marc Cruz Gr. 10 - Determination * Month and Focused Reading Theme: September - Periodicals * Book Details
Title of the Book/Article/Periodical: Ivory
Author/Writer: National Geographic
Release Date: September 2015
Publisher: National Geographic

* Personal Reading Details
Date the Book/Article/Periodical was read: September 19, 2015
Number of pages: 232
Amount of time spent in reading: 28 minutes
How I came across the Book/Article/Periodical: Was looking at periodical magazines.
Reason for choosing the Book/Article/Periodical: I found this very alarming and interesting, it is an eye opener on what really is happening to our world. * How I Read

A. Predicting: Slaughtered many innocent Elephants. B. Picturing: Many of dead elephants without their tusk. C. Making Connections: People don’t know what is really happening today, I feel really bad for these poor creatures; because they are so helpless no one is helping them. I think we should all do something about it, we can’t rely on a few hands only. D. Identifying Problems: Elephant ivory tusk sold at black markets for a fairly high price. These poachers never stop until they get filthy rich. These men are so cruel and selfish not knowing, these poor creatures are near extinction because of what they are doing. In a matter of years our future generations will never be able to see such amazing creatures anymore; because in the near future all of them will extinct and there is nothing left for our children to see. E. Identifying Solutions: Simple, we should kill all of the poachers there is no other way in doing this. If we arrest them they will just come back and keep doing it over and over again. Better kill them so they will never bother them ever again. This will prevent them from spreading or teaching kids to become a poacher. Better to kill them because they will never learn and all they will ever think of is wealth and good fortune.

F. Reading Log Proper:

A. Making Observations

1. What strikes you about the text?

I choose this magazine because it is very alarming, knowing we humans don’t know what is happening to our dear creatures. These creatures are valuable, because anything that has a life is precious. This really is striking to me because these elephants are near its extinction but poachers and people always demand for their tusk. These poachers will never stop unless we humans make a change by giving no demand for such thing.

2. What is the gist of the text?

We are slowly losing our wildlife, and we humans are the cause. In the near future each one of them will slowly extinct and none will be left. We should start doing something about it because this is very alarming. It’s just not the elephants alone, but a more than a hundred species we are slowly losing, and we don’t even know that we are doing this to them. We are so blind and we don’t know what’s happening around us; were so selfish not thinking of other animals lives at risk when we demand such exotic products. We should all start and make a change by stopping the demand of animal products, because if we won’t there will be no sight of them for our future generation to see.

3. Do you agree with the author?

Yes, because we are losing these animals slowly because of the demand for their ivory tusk. Poachers hunt them down to sell their parts to black markets to supply the demand for the ivory tusk. The elephants are near extinction and no move has yet been made.

Make a bullet point list of 3 – 4 important insights learned.

* Anything that has life is valuable * We should care for our wild life * Stop buying animal products * Kill poachers * Don’t support animal products * Help these animals to raise their population

B. Making Questions.

1. Small q’s * What are elephants? * What do they do to elephants? * What will happen to the elephants in the near future?

2. Big q’s * Who is to blame for all of this madness? * Do you think by lowering the demand can stop this cruelty? * How can you help these elephants in your own little way?

C. Quotation Analysis

1. What quote struck you as a memorable or particularly interesting?

“ANIMAL CRUELTY IS ONE OF THE MOST BARBARIC DEMONSTRATIONS OF HUMAN BEINGS MANIPULATING ILL CONCIEVED NOTIONS OF “POWER” OVER THE OTHER SPECIES.” –IAN SOMERHALDER