Objectives:

By the end of this lesson you will be able to:

• Understand the animals’ suffering and you will be willing to help.
• Join (may be) a society of protection for animals
• Will love your dog or cat more
• Will succeed in persuading your parents to agree to bringing a pet into the family (if you don’t have one)

Go to the following site.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/machan6.html

The Myth of Animals Rights

Read the text and answer the questions:

1. What is the main idea of the passage?

2. Express your opinion about the answers given to the questions asked in the text.

Go to the following site.

http://www.peta.org/feat/military/

Read the article and express your opinion about the facts mentioned in the paragraph.

Go to the following site and do the following:

http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/animalexperiments/animalexperiments.jsp

Read the short introduction.

Explain the words: anti-vivisection; reluctant to

Make up sentences of your own with the two words.

Click on “Lessons for the World” Read the text and write down the main idea.

Click on : “Beastly Work”, “Scientists criticized for lack of leadership on animal testing”; “ Dying so we must live” and “An Open Wound”.

Read the text and write down the main idea.

Based on what you have read answer the following questions:

1. What do the articles you have read have in common?
2. Do the articles speak about how important experiments on animals are? Explain.
3. Explain in your own words the following sentence: “Animal testing is the hot potato of all political hot potatoes” which appears in:”Chemical safety screening plan "unacceptable”.

Follow-up activity:

1. Make up a dialogue between a dog and his master who is a scientist, working on discovering a new cure for humans. The dog is asking his master, who loves his dog very much, about his feelings while experimenting on animals.
2. Make up a pamphlet on: “Let Animals Live”

ASSIGNMENT	CRITERIA	POINTS
Create visual representation of your findings	At least 3 visual themes	-out of 20