S.A.L.T.Y.P. MODEL "Are You My Mother"

Name: Donna Moreau          Block:    H     Article: “Are You My Mother? Orphaned Baby Animals snuggling with Old Fur Clothing

S.A.L.T.Y.P.      S.TRUCTURE A.UTHOR/AUDIENCE L.ANGUAGE T.TONE Y.EAR P.URPOSE

STRUCTURE
HOOKS/GRABBERS	TEXT STRUCTURE	PATTERNS OF TEXT
Title is an allusion to the children’s book by P.D. Eastman, Are You My Mother - a baby bird is searching for his/her mother	Traditional Info Text structure    Background info about use of furs       problems    Thesis included in intro     Suggests compare/contrast     Statistics facts        Heading #1 introduces         Provocative heading with solutions     Heading #2 Results with evidence Missing a conclusion to wrap up the ideas	Title w/two headings Then divided into paragraphs Repetition of words (c words) (Not a real conclusion)

AUTHOR/AUDIENCE
AUTHOR	AUDIENCE	POINT OF VIEW
No stated author, but article comes from the Washington Post August 15, 2016	Young adults as the article was adapted by the Newsela staff	Reporter – Omniscient

LANGUAGE
WORD CHOICE	WORD CONNOTATION	LANGUAGE OF AN ARGUMENT
Intro:  wearing animal fur, unfashionable, conflicted Heading #1 adorable, orphaned baby animals – CUTENESS FACTOR Lost their mothers Comfy and comforting Cuddling Parentless	The phrase 41 percent think fur is unfashionable connotes that there is still a large % of the population that is against wearing furs. Maybe the final line, the quote from a Born Free donor, connotes that once people become aware of where furs come from, they are less likely to want to wear furs. Otherwise the wording is pretty straight forward	Not really an argument, more information and suggestions, but uses argument language and research Logos Pathos

TONE
EXAMPLES OF TONE	QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER
Lost their mothers  - sadness Parentless - sadness Comfy and comforting Cuddling and cozy Baby animals – smushy Overall hopeful that something terrible, “From Cruelty to Comfort”, can be put to good use.	I wonder if anyone reading this might find it kind of sick or weird that dead animals are comforting live animals. Is there an irony there?

YEAR
STEP 1: IDENTIFY THE YEAR	STEP 2: ANALYZE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE YEAR WRITTEN/PUBLISHED OR THE YEAR THE STORY IS SET
August of 2016	I don’t think there is a significance in the year.  I appreciate the opening line where the writer suggests that, “as many times as fur in fashion has been proclaimed dead . . .“,  suggests that the wearing of dead animals is a trendy thing.
PURPOSE
WHY WRITE THIS? MESSAGE/THEME	IDENTIFYING AUTHOR’S PURPOSE IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE . . .
Even actions that some think are cruel can eventually be used for good. Evidence:        Headline #1 “From Cruelty to Comfort        Humans “remain conflicted about wearing animal fur.”        “What’s the right thing to do?        “A coat born of cruelty, is now help animals . . . “                        Adam M. Roberts, CEO of Born Free USA                        (an animal welfare and conservation group                        that collects old furs)	Because humans are conflicted about the wearing of animal furs, the author proposes that no matter how one feels, old furs, found furs, or furs cast aside because of a change in moral beliefs, can be used to help comfort animals that are struggling because of any number of circumstances, usually because they lost their mothers or where hurt and rescued..

In the space below, please write a summary of the article based on your findings.  This should be an objective summary

using evidence from the text.

In the article, “Are you my mother? Orphaned baby animals snuggling with old fur clothing,” adapted by the Newsela staff from the Washington Post, the author(s), in the title, allude to a Suessian inspired children’s book about a little bird searching for his/her lost mother. What this allusion suggests is that the article will be about baby animals and some sort of loss.  And, the allusion works because the story is about how used, discarded, and/or inherited furs are being used to comfort orphaned baby animals.  The article begins by revealing statistics regarding designers who continue to use furs and those that have, “ . . . gone fur free.”  Even though humans are conflicted about wearing furs, the animal pelts are still around and one organization, Born Free USA, is taking action to turn the “cruel” practice of stripping the fur off of animals to using the furs to comfort animals removed from their natural environments.  The author(s) of the article use pathos, i.e. “ . . . lost their mothers . . . “, “ . . . raised in crowded wire cages . . .”, and the repetition of the word, “cruel” to tell the story. They also use sweet words like, “cozy, comfy, and comforting,” or “cuddling”, to suggest a tone of positivity in the solution to donate old, used, worn, or discarded furs to animals in wildlife rehabilitation centers.  In the end, and despite the author’s use of biased words, the article provides a clear solution about how to use furs as surrogate mothers to animals who need the comfort of a good snuggle.