I Acknowledge Mine By Jane Goodall.. I Acknowledge Mine By Jane Goodall. Valerie Jane Morris Goodall Born: April 3rd 1934 London - England English primatologist,

I Acknowledge MineBy Jane Goodall.


Valerie Jane Morris Goodall

Born: April 3rd 1934

London - England

English primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace.

Considered to be the world's foremost expert on Chimpanzees, Goodall is best

known for her 55-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees

in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. She is the founder of The Jane

Goodall Institute and, she has worked extensively on conservation and animal

welfare issues.


Gombe National Park, Tanzania.


Jane and David Greybeard.


Jane observed them to have unique and

individual personalities, an unconventional

idea at the time.

She found that, "it isn't only human beings

who have personality, who are capable of

rational thought and emotions like joy and

sorrow. “She also observed behaviours such

as hugs, kisses, pats on the back, and

even tickling, what we consider "human"

actions.

David Greybeard


Jane also discovered that chimps will

systematically hunt and eat smaller

primates. She watched a hunting group

isolate a small colobus monkey in a tree,

block all possible exits, then one chimpanzee

climbed up the tree, captured and killed the

monkey.

Goodall observed dominant females

deliberately killing the young of other

females in the troop to maintain their

dominance, sometimes going as far as

cannibalism.

"During the first ten years of the study I had believed that the Gombe chimpanzees were, for the most part, rather nicer than human beings…

Then suddenly we found that chimpanzees could be brutal, that they, just like us, had a darker side to their nature."



Among those chimpanzees that Goodall named during her

years in Gombe were:

David Greybeard, a grey-chinned male who first warmed up to Goodall.

Goliath, a friend of David Greybeard, originally the alpha male named

for his bold nature.

Mike, who through his cunning and improvisation displaced Goliath as

the alpha male.

Humphrey, a big, strong, bullysome male.

Gigi, a large, sterile female who delighted in being the "aunt" of any

young chimps or humans.

Mr. McGregor, a belligerent older male;

Flo, a motherly, high-ranking female with a bulbous nose and ragged

ears, and her children; Figan, Faben, Freud, Fifi, and Flint.

Frodo, Fifi's second oldest child, an aggressive male who would

frequently attack Jane, and ultimately forced her to leave the troop when

he became alpha male.



Jane developed a close bond with the chimpanzees and became, to

this day, the only human ever accepted into chimpanzee

society. She was the lowest ranking member of a troop for a period

of 22 months.


Goodall’s ReserchChallenged two long standing beliefs:

1.- Only humans could construct and use tools.

2.- Chimpanzees were vegetarians.


While observing one chimpanzee feeding at

a termite mound, she watched him

repeatedly place stalks of grass into termite

holes, then remove them from the hole

covered with clinging termites, effectively

“fishing” for termites.

NOT VEGETARIANS…


The chimps would also take twigs from trees

and strip off the leaves to make the twig

more effective, a form of object modification

which is the rudimentary beginnings of

toolmaking.

MAN THE TOOL MAKER?"We must now redefine man, redefine tool, or accept chimpanzees as human!“ Louis Leakey



A Persuasive Essay, also known as the

argument essay, utilizes logic and reason to show

that one idea is more legitimate than another

idea. It attempts to persuade a reader to adopt a

certain point of view or to take a particular action.

The argument must always use sound reasoning

and solid evidence by stating facts, giving logical

reasons, using examples, and quoting experts.


Parts of an essay

Introduction

1. Hook- gets the readers attention

2. Intro to the topic- addresses issue/problem, two sides, topic and arguments

3. Thesis- one sentence statement that addresses the topic and your position.


Body Paragraph

1.Topic Sentence- transition phrase and gives reason in support of your side in the argument.

2.Evidence- comes in forms of fact, observation, and experience.

3.Counterargument- addresses readers concerns.

4. concluding sentence- rephrases the topic.


Conclusion

1. Body Review- restates main arguments, restates thesis, call to action. Tells the reader what to do next.

Tone

It is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. Tone is generally conveyed through the choice of words or the viewpoint of a writer on a particular subject.

VOCABULARY

Stark

Boisterous

Alleviate

Stridently

Bond

Batches

To shatter

Utterly

Ushered

To bear

To enshrine

To fleck

To rustle

To flit

Violating

Bleak

Languish

Ethical

Deprive

Contact

Confined

Cramped

Isolette

Bouts

To huddle

Canopy

To groom

To rattle

To squat

To ponder

VOCABULARY

Stark: harsh or grim

Boisterous: noisy and

without discipline

Alleviate: to relief

Stridently: harshly,

conspicuously

Bond: uniting force, tie

Batches: quantities,

numbers coming at one

time

To shatter: to damage

Utterly: completely

Ushered: to be escorted

Confined: to restrict

Bewilder: to confuse

Isolette: incubator

Bouts: trials of

strenght

To huddle: to crouch

Canopy: highest level

of branches and

foliage.

To groom: to tend

carefully.

To rattle: to cause

short, Sharp sound.

To squat: to sit in low

croching position

To ponder: meditate

To enshrine: to

cherish as sacred

To fleck: to spot or

mark

To rustle: to make

slight, soft sounds

To flit: to move lightly

and swiftly

Violating: doing harm

or disturbing.

Bleak: desolate,

without hope

Languish: to lose vigor

or vitality or become

weak


Reread lines 1-12

How would you summarize the information?

The author decided to help chimpanzees in medical

research labs after viewing a videotape that showed

monkeys and chimpanzees suffering in a laboratory.


Reread lines 37-44

Why might Goodall have chosen rethorical questions to gain the reader’s symphaty?

Rethorical questions can sometimes have obvious

answers. She does it in order to emphasize her point,

focus attention on plight of chimpanzees.


Reread lines 50-53

Why does comparing the chimpanzees to children create a sad tone?

Readers can easily sympathize with orphaned refugee

children and can transfer their emotional reaction to

animals in a similar situation.


HOMEWORK: Read lines 53 – 116.

1.- Why does the author focus on Jojo?

2.- How does she humanize him?

3.- How does this treatment affect your understanding of animal rights?


Reread lines 116-130

What details make this passage a powerful emotional appeal?This passage gets its powerful, emotional appeal

from:

The description of Jojo’s lost life in Africa, Jojo’s gently

touching a finger to Jane’s wrist, the rattling of cages,

the violent sway of bodies beating the bars, Jane’s

tears and Jim’s words.



Restate the key point that the author makes.

Reasearchers have an obligation to yhe animals they use. They

should learn about the animals and their natural bahaviors to

understand how their experiments affect these animals. They

should also observe the suffering they cause so they can weigh

the benefits against that suffering, and finally they should stop

treating lab animals more harshly than they do criminals, since

they are supposedly helping humans and not being punished for

crimes.



Summarize the author’s proposal for determining if the experiments on chimpanzees are justified.We should stop performing experiments on

chimpanzees, creatures that are like humans in many

ways, because we refrain from performing those

experiments on humans for ethical reasons. The same

standards of ethics should be applied to chimpanzees.



What words or sentences and images appeal to your emotions?

“Deep shame”

“deprived Jojo of almost everything”

Images may include:

Contrast between the natural world denied to Jojo and

the harsh details of the laboratory.


What evidence in this essay do you find most convincing and why?

People are able to communicate with chimpanzees

through “shared primate signals”. This shows they are

intelligent, complex animals that deserve compassion.

Humans have cruelly deprived them of their natural

habitat and association with other chimpanzees.

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