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Texas EOC English 2: 4.3 Understanding and Analysis Across Genres 5 Views
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Texas EOC English 2: 4.3 Understanding and Analysis Across Genres. What does the selected text imply about estuaries?
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- 00:04
Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by biology so later
- 00:08
you'll have to dissect it and locate its heart okay drive the following passage [Students dissecting in class]
- 00:15
estuaries....... okay we're skimming see I'm assuming and yeah we're done
- 00:23
read the following selection from paragraph to write chair because they
- 00:27
are biologically productive estuaries provide ideal areas for migratory birds
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- 00:32
to rest and refuel during their long journeys the selection above implies
- 00:37
that estuaries what all right produce provided oh alright well let's whittle
- 00:46
down our choices by nixing the options that aren't mentioned in the passage [Bat strikes pinata]
- 00:50
right off the bat first we'll cross off choice C though it's true that some
- 00:54
birds do hang out in estuaries during the winter the pastures never talks
- 00:57
about this though ferdz want to get advice for their winter vacations well [Bird using iPhone]
- 01:00
they can count on the EPA for travel tips we can eliminate option D as well
- 01:06
birds do follow a seasonal lifecycle but again the passage doesn't mention this
- 01:11
fact answer a might fool us if we're not careful but we've got your letter a the [Man wearing a jokers hat]
- 01:16
term biologically productive might lead us to think that the original sentence
- 01:20
is referring to the fact that some migratory birds are born in estuaries
- 01:24
however this passage never specifically fills us in on this choice B is the
- 01:29
right answer when the passage says that estuaries are biologically productive it
- 01:34
means wetlands contain sources of food that catch the eye in other parts of [Bird flies over a wetland]
- 01:38
migratory birds let's imagine that we're on an epic road trip are we going to
- 01:43
look for an empty deserted village in which to hang out or are we looking for [Family drive car into empty village]
- 01:47
a town with an all-you-can-eat buffet in a nice place to chill for a while yeah
- 01:52
birds too
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