Sample Aca Deca Essay Prompts
Instructions: Select one of the prompts for your essay. Write the number of the prompt on the 1st page of your essay. Write a well-organized essay in which you clearly respond to the question or directions that is presented in the prompt. Maintain legible handwriting. You ma use a pen if you wish, but avoid messy cross outs. Allow yourself time to proofread your essay. For the essay topic, state your individual thesis or position clearly. Use specific information and examples from your studies to support your position. Provide a final paragraph to conclude or close your essay.
1) “Human activities have become a major source of environmental change. Of great urgency are the climate consequences of the increasing atmospheric abundance of greenhouse gases and other trace constituents resulting primarily from energy use, agriculture, and land clearing. These radioactively active gases and trace constituents interact strongly with the earth’s energy balance, resulting in the prospect of significant global warming.”
Describe the “greenhouse effect” and its effect upon global warming. Cite specific facts and examples from the USAD Super quiz Resource Guide to support your explanation. What are the specific examples that support this assertion?
2) Throughout the Good Earth, parallels and contrasts are drawn between the life of a struggling farmer and his family and the life in the rich House of Hwang. In a well-organized essay, select some of the parallels and contrasts between the 2 families, and discuss how these parallels and contrasts contribute to the structure and themes of the novel.
3) “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” and Kubla
Khan were both derived from earlier sources with their roots in
From Spark Notes
1. How does Buck
satirize Western Christian missionaries in the novel?
2. What does Wang
Lung’s family’s gradual disconnection from the land say about their moral
position and their hopes for future success? Explain what you think happens to
Wang Lung’s family after the close of the novel.
3. How are Wang Lung
and his oldest son alike? Given the similarities in their characters, why do
they come into conflict?
4. Why does Wang Lung
decide to move into the Hwang family’s house in town? What does such a move
signify for him?