Article of the Week

English Language Arts – Mr. McMillan

Directions: → Mark your confusion. → Purposefully annotate the article (at least 2 mature, thoughtful responses per page) → Answer the ‘Reading Check’ questions and write a 250+ word response to the article. → Come prepared for our class discussion on Friday to share your thoughts and/or reactions.

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CLE ELUM, Wash. — In Washington state, a special birthday party is underway. A Dora the Explorer-themed banner, paper plates full of fruit and a collection of troll dolls make up the decorations.

Staffers drum up excitement by letting out a series of groans. A group of chimpanzees behind a separating wall replies in kind.

The celebration at the Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest is for Foxie, a chimp turning 40. The celebratory occasion underlines a painful past. Foxie was born in a Texas laboratory and was used for hepatitis experiments. The labs were using chimpanzees to help cure the dangerous liver disease in humans, however, the chimps still had to have surgeries and be a part of tests.

No Longer Used In Experiments

Sanctuaries or shelters around the country are preparing for a rush of retired private lab chimps like Foxie now that the federal government has stopped giving money to fund experiments on them. The challenge will be finding the room and supplies to house and reintegrate the animals.

"There is no space right now for them," said Diana Goodrich, co-director of

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Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest. "It's a matter of getting enough money to expand the sanctuaries that exist."

Life Wasn't A Barrel Of Monkeys For Lab Chimps

Chimps were key in developing important medicines and paved astronauts' way into space. Their use declined dramatically in recent years. In a 2011 report, the Institute of Medicine said science had advanced to the point that most such research was no longer useful enough to justify hurting the primates.

About 700 chimpanzees remain in government and private labs. The National Institutes of Health last month announced its final timeline for chimps in government protective care, saying all 360 remaining animals will be transferred to Louisiana shelter Chimp Haven by 2026.

For the 300 or so chimps in private laboratories, negotiations are underway with various shelters, said Kathleen Conlee. She focuses on animal research issues at The Humane Society. "We're playing catch-up," she said.

Housed Across The Country

About 220 chimps will be housed at Project Chimp, a space in northern Georgia. The latest transfer happened this month, with nine chimps moving to their new home. The rest will go to shelters around the country.

Beyond construction and transportation costs, housing a chimpanzee costs between $16,000 and $20,000 annually, Conlee said. "I think the most exciting thing about this campaign is that in other animal protection issues, you don't see an end," she said. "There is an end in sight and a great ending for these chimpanzees."

A Place Of Healing And Hope

Back at the Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest, Foxie has six companions, also used for hepatitis experiments. Foxie gave birth to more laboratory chimps, but all four of her offspring were taken from her.

"We have chimps here who have signs of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder," Goodrich said. The shelter plans to add another two to four chimps to Foxie's group but will need to expand for a second group. Employees hope for the same rehabilitation success they had with Foxie.

"She was really wary when she first came," Goodrich said. "Really kind of fearful and uncertain."

Foxie Goes Ape For A Doll

Then, Foxie saw a troll doll. "The first troll doll she saw she immediately fell in love with, which we weren't expecting at all," Goodrich said.

Now, Foxie finds comfort in the hundreds of dolls in her collection, carrying one on her back like an infant. She grooms them and hugs them. She is no longer afraid and has emerged as a peacemaker in her group, Goodrich said.

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Reading Check

1. How does the author support the CENTRAL idea that housing the chimps is beneficial to them? (A) by citing facts from a report about shelters (B) by describing one chimp's experience at a shelter (C) by discussing the financial issues of shelters (D) by stressing the broad distribution of shelters

2. Which two of the following sentences from the article include CENTRAL ideas of the article?

1. Chimps were key in developing important medicines and paved astronauts' way into space. 2. The latest transfer happened this month, with nine chimps moving to their new home. 3. Back at the Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest, Foxie has six companions, also used for hepatitis experiments. 4. "There is an end in sight and a great ending for these chimpanzees."

(A) 1 and 3 (B) 1 and 4 (C) 2 and 3 (D) 2 and 4

3. “She is no longer afraid and has emerged as a peacemaker in her group, Goodrich said.” What does the word

"emerged" convey in this sentence? (A) a sense that Foxie's high spirits are temporary (B) a sense of how hard Foxie continues to struggle (C) a sense of how quickly Foxie changed (D) a sense of Foxie's emotional maturity

4. “Employees hope for the same rehabilitation success they had with Foxie.” Which answer choice is the best definition

of the word "rehabilitation" as it is used in the above sentence? (A) relocation (B) retention (C) restoration (D) revision

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