I WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST AND ILL MAKE 2 NEW QUESTIONS WITH 100 POINTS ON BOTH IF YOU ANSWER THIS. Find a news story in a newspaper or magazine, online, or on television and analyze it. Support your answers with evidence from the story. What was the headline?

What are the 5Ws and the H?

Who?

What?

When?

Where?

Why?

How?

How does the article end?

Were the facts arranged from most important to least important?

Were there any quotes?

Who wrote the article?

Why did they write the article?

How might others see the article?

How many people are affected by the story?

Are the sources credible?

Thinking about the analysis:

Did answering the questions help you understand the story better? If so, how? If not, why not?

Do the questions change your perspective on the article? Explain.

The story of Slaughterhouse Canyon takes place during the Gold Rush. During the 1800s, there was a family who lived down in the canyon. They were very poor, so the father would venture out into the canyon for food for his family. As you might have guessed, one day the father did not return, so his family slowly starved and descended into madness. The mother, unable to bear listening to her children's cries anymore, put on her wedding dress, murdered her children, and then threw them into a nearby river. The next day she succumbed to starvation herself.

The legend states that if you go down to Slaughterhouse Canyon at night, even now, you will hear the loud, anguished cries of the mother who lost her mind.

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themes and meanings

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”