<p>For anyone in New York who took the English regents today...</p>
<p>What did you put for the first question of listening? It was like The author included the story about climbing Mount Everest to....</p>
<p>Was it to capture the audiences' interest/attention </p>
<p>or convey personal beliefs?</p>
<p>This is in the wrong thread…but I’ll reply anyway</p>
<p>I put convey personal beliefs. He told the story in order to illustrate that, even though his achievement is great, it doesn’t match up to the other things he accomplished (building schools and stuff). I’m not positive though, I was stuck between the same choices…</p>
<p>Actually, I am pretty sure that it was to increase audience attention. I am in all APs and all my other AP friends put that so I would be greatly surprised if that is not the answer.</p>
<p>i put personal beliefs… can you tell me why it would be increase audience attention? because i think the whole point was for the author to say that his biggest achievement was not climbing the mt everest, but helping rebuild cultural centers and build schools and etc… idk how it would be to increase audience attention? which statement in the passage said taht?</p>
<p>^ I put audience attention because the question referred to the specific anecdote of climbing the mountain. I don’t think the story about climbing said anything about the author’s beliefs, but rather the entire passage did. Considering it was in National Geographic, I think the point of including the anecdote was to capture the reader’s attention with an exciting story.</p>
<p>As the first question, I don’t think it would refer to the passage as a whole, but rather to the first few paragraphs. Climbing the mountain itself didn’t talk about her beliefs at all. </p>
<p>Who knows though. All my friends and everyone online is split about evenly on this one…</p>
<p>I put down to get the attention of the audience, because he easily could have said that “yeah I climbed mount everest, but I did something even greater, change people’s lives” rather than going into detail about the equipment he used. The question about what the conclusion paragraph in the story about hoarding (lol) was it that they shared common beliefs? I wasn’t too sure about that one either. What did you guys write about in your critical lens? I had just done basically the exact opposite quote in a practice critical lens when I was studying, so I basically just had to change invalid to valid on the essay and then I pretty much rewrote it so I thought that that wasn’t too bad. I wasn’t sure what literary device to use for the paired text so I said imagery for the poem. Does that work?</p>
<p>I took it and put to get the attention of the audience. That critical lens prompt perplexed me at first, but I ended up agreeing with the quote and using two books I didn’t review and forgot a lot about :D</p>
<p>Imagery should have worked. The regents graders aren’t really harsh as long as you answer the question well. I used anaphora with the “in the midst of.” Also, I put shared common beliefs. For the one about foreshadowing her childhood bedroom, did you put something like “Why do we keep it all”? Also, for the one about giving her daughter some things, did you say it was revealing?</p>