What mood is the author trying to create in today's reading? How does this section make you feel?
[The mood created in this section is one of compassion for the animals
who were negatively effected by the oil spill. I think the author
is trying to create such a mood so that we, as the audience to her book,
will try to make ourselves more aware of what we can do to help preserve
the animals and habitats in our world, and ways that we can prevent harm
from coming to such creations.]
1 Sequence
List the following events in the correct order:
(3) A barber uses a cotton swab to wipe oil from the loon's mouth
(2) A house painter frightens the loon away as he tries to rescue it from the oil-filled waters
(1) The barge carrying tons of oil wrecks and spills oil in the bay
(4) An artist sets the loon
free