Questions on Session One Part B

Objective: Reading and writing for information and understanding, as assessed by:-
a written response to a text and related visual- multiple-choice questions on basic comprehension.

Let's take a look at a past ELA Regents Part 2 exam and do the following: Read the entire text and graph.

Read the instructions and answer the following:

1- What kind of texts do you expect to read?
Before reading the text, I read the task. According to the task, I will reading about the
effective methods that are used to save endangered species, for this essay.

2- What is a graph, and what kind of information does it elicit?
A graph is "a diagram representing a system of connections or interrelations among two or more things by a number of distinctive dots, lines, bars, and etc."

3- How can you compare the two?
You can compare both the text and the graph by discussing each document. Then you can use specific, accurate, and relevant information from the text and the table to support your opinion.

4- What are they asking you to do in this essay?
For this essay, this part mainly wants me to "write a chapter for a guide, or (your) environmental science class in which you explain why the Florida manatee is endangered and discuss effective methods used to save the Florida manatee."

5- Is this a persuasive or informative essay? Why?
I think that this essay is informative because it doesn't provide it's own based opinion in general. It gives a lot of details, which try to describe something to you.

6- What thesis statement can you possibly write for this essay?
Many species are endangered all around the world. For example, Florida's manatee is endangered and there are three effective ways used to save the Florida manatee.

7- What if they wanted you to write a Letter to a senator, then how many paragraphs would you write?
If the regents asked me to write a letter to a senator, then I would write more then four paragraphs.