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Test What You Have Learned - Test 1 |
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Instructions: Read the following ACT Topics and choose one
to write an essay on. Then choose the format for your final draft.
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The Board of Education has received two proposals to develop
a program to help recent immigrant students learn English. One
proposal is to hire teachers for a bilingual education program.
In this program, students would take core courses, such as history,
math and science in their native languages. The other proposal
is to create an English immersion program in which core courses
would be taught entirely in English. Write a letter to the Board
of Education curriculum committee in which you argue for a bilingual
education program or for an English immersion program. Explain
how your choice will best help recent immigrant students learn
English.
Begin your letter, "Dear Curriculum Committee:"
A major supermarket chain is planning to build a huge new supermarket
in a mostly Hispanic neighborhood that doesn't have one already.
Not only will the new supermarket create more than one hundred
jobs, it will also offer residents more variety and lower prices
than the bodegas can offer. The new store is running into some
strong opposition from people who say that the proposed supermarket
will put the family-owned bodegas out of business. The Community
Planning Board will soon meet to decide whether or not to issue
a permit to the supermarket chain to begin building. Write a
letter to the Board in which you argue in favor of building
a large supermarket or of keeping bodegas in business. Explain
how your choice will benefit the Hispanic neighborhood.
Begin your letter, "Dear Community Board:"
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Write the essay as a Word document and attach it to an email:
You can write the essay in Microsoft Word and then save it as
a document (e.g. voteressay.doc). You can print this document
or attach it to an email. Editing your work is much easier if
you prepare it this way.
To work on the
essay as a Word document, click here.
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Write the essay online and print it:
You can prepare the essay on our website and then print it.
After you print it, you may wish to take it to the
Center and show it to an instructor. Or you may wish to take
the printed copy directly to your professor.
To work on the
essay and immediately print it, click here.
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