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making Connections Through research
aCTIvITy 2.18
Learning Targets
• Closely read and analyze an autobiographical text about how animals can help people, citing text evidence to support analysis and inferences.
• Conduct research to answer questions about how animals help people.
Preview
In this activity, you will read an excerpt from an autobiography and conduct research to answer questions generated from the text.
Setting a Purpose for Reading
• Read the excerpt and star the main idea.
• Underline details that support the main idea.
• Circle unknown words and phrases. Try to determine the meaning of the words by using context clues, word parts, or a dictionary.
my Notes
About the Author
Temple Grandin (1947–) was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She is an American doctor of animal science and a professor at Colorado State University, a bestselling author, and a consultant to the livestock industry on animal behavior. As a person with high-functioning autism, Grandin is also widely noted for her work in autism advocacy. Autism is a disorder
of neural development characterized by impaired social interaction and communication and by restricted and repetitive behavior.
autobiography
“Dogs Make Us Human” from Animals in Translation
by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson
The aborigines have a saying: “Dogs make us human.” Now we know that’s probably literally true. People wouldn’t have become who we are today if we hadn’t co-evolved with dogs.
I think it’s also true, though in a different way, that all animals make us human. That’s why I hope we will start to think more respectfully about animal intelligence and talent. That would be good for people, because there are a lot of things we can’t do that animals can. We could use their help.
But it would be good for animals, too. Dogs first started living with people because people needed dogs and dogs needed people. Now dogs still need people, but people have forgotten how much they need dogs for anything besides love and
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LearNING STraTeGIeS:
KWHL, Diffusing, Visualizing
literally: actually, without exaggeration
co-evolved: evolved at the same time, having a close ecological relationship and acting as agents of natural selection for each other
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