English II (on-level): Embedding Quotes in "Man in the Water"

As we discussed in class today, many of you had difficulty supporting your answers (assertions) with text evidence on last Thursday's test. In class we discussed embedding quoted evidence in your own sentences to support your argument. Please copy the following response that we generated in class (word for word, letter for letter, punctuation mark for punctuation mark).

One difficulty with the rescue was the extreme cold. The man in the water “had to know…no matter how gradual the effect of the cold,” eventually it would kill him. Another difficulty was that the helicopter couldn’t pick up everyone at once. “Every time they lowered a lifeline and floatation ring to [the passengers in the water, the man in the water] passed it on” so someone else could be saved.