Task 2
What should you annotate for as you read through regents task 2 sources?
Evidence that is positive or negative in relation to the Topic/Question.
What is a central idea? Should it include plot points?
1) The message an author is trying to communicate about a text.
2) NO
Passage A- Question 3:
1. What is one answer you eliminated? Why?
2. Which answer did you select? Why?
Correct answer: 2- anticipation to confusion
Passage B- Question 11:
1. What is one answer you eliminated? Why?
2. Which answer did you select? Why?
Correct Answer: 3- separation
Passage C- Question 15:
1. What is one answer you eliminated? Why?
2. Which answer did you select? Why?
Correct Answer: 1- describing an experiment without revealing its purpose
How many reasons should you provide for your Argumentative claim?
2
What is a writing strategy?
An element or technique used by a writer to build their central idea/meaning
Passage A- Question 5:
1. What is one answer you eliminated? Why?
2. Which answer did you select? Why?
4- entrap Mrs. Munson
Passage B Question 12:
1. What is one answer you eliminated? Why?
2. Which answer did you select? Why?
Correct Answer: 4- destiny not persistence
Passage C- Question 16:
1. What is one answer you eliminated? Why?
2. Which answer did you select? Why?
Correct Answer: 2- little
Revise this claim to make it stronger: I think students should not get participation awards in sports because they discourage effort and they can make kids overconfident.
Remove the "I think"
Which of these claims is stronger? Why?
A) In the Paper Menagerie, Ken Liu communicates that the pressure to assimilate can cause stress on immigrants.
B) In the Paper Menagerie, Ken Liu shows assimilation has a negative impact on immigrants through the use of conflict.
Claim B is stronger because it includes a writing strategy
Passage A- Question 7:
1. What is one answer you eliminated? Why?
2. Which answer did you select? Why?
Correct Answer: 3- concern for appearances
Passage B Question 13:
1. What is one answer you eliminated? Why?
2. Which answer did you select? Why?
Correct Answer: 4- alliance
Passage C- Question 21:
1. What is one answer you eliminated? Why?
2. Which answer did you select? Why?
Correct Answer: 1-connection between population changers and scientific findings
Revise this claim to make it stronger: Elementary age children should receive participation awards because they encourage teamwork.
Add a second reason
What is this evidence missing?
"Right after you won the American Visa lottery, they told you in a month you'll have a big house and a car."
Missing citation
Passage A- Question 9:
1. What is one answer you eliminated? Why?
2. Which answer did you select? Why?
Correct Answer: 1- desperation
Passage B Question 14:
1. What is one answer you eliminated? Why?
2. Which answer did you select? Why?
Correct Answer: 2- impending trouble
Passage C- Question 22:
1. What is one answer you eliminated? Why?
2. Which answer did you select? Why?
Correct Answer: 4- tangled mass
Revise this evidence and analysis to make it stronger: According to text 3, "Participation Awards can lead to overconfidence." (Text 3, line 40). This means that participation awards can make students overconfident.
1) Expand analysis so that it does not just summarize
2) Explain how analysis connects to claim (Kids should not receive participation awards)
What two things is this analysis missing?
"Right after you won the American Visa lottery, they told you in a month you'll have a big house and a car." (Lines 23-24). Akunna wants to have a big house and luxury things when she moves to America.
1) The analysis just summarizes the evidence.
2) It needs to connect to the central idea. It does not mention a writing strategy.
Passage A- Question 10:
1. What is one answer you eliminated? Why?
2. Which answer did you select? Why?
Correct Answer: 3- "The woman who confronted her had no chic up-swept coiffure ... indeed her hair hung rather limply and had an uncombed look." (lines 21 and 22)
A) Tone
B) Mood
C) Irony
B) Mood- the feeling a piece of writing gives a reader
C) Something that happens/is said that is the opposite of what is expected
Passage C- Question 24:
1. What is one answer you eliminated? Why?
2. Which answer did you select? Why?
Correct Answer: 1- predicting those sudden changes is far from straightforward, however, because food webs can be staggeringly complex."