Non-Fiction Response Analysis

1. A student name Jeffery complains that he was late to school because of the baby. He’s
participating in a program that aims to prevent school pregnancy. Students use to robotic baby for
their grade. The responses on the baby is tracked and recorded and the students are graded on
how they quickly react. Education and dreams of advancement are often derailed for these young
mothers. The robotic babies were developed in the United States more than 20 years ago, and the
program has been implemented around the world. After the weeklong course, a student name
Alexandra claims that she does not want a baby now and that she is not capable of taking care of
the baby.
2. The connections I can make between the text is that babies are a lot of work and I would know
because I use to watch shows like 16 and pregnant and they were stressed and very exhausted.
3. The author’s purpose was to inform. The specific words that led me to the conclusion is just by
informing what the robot babies are for and why do they use robot babies.
4. The audience is high school students. I know its high school students because the text mainly
describes teenagers, high school. The choice of audience affects the texts by using the word
teenagers.
5. The most relevant details is when the author states “Jefrin has taken care of the baby for the past
48 hours, and the typically outgoing and buoyant teen is clearly exhausted. He arrives at school
five minutes after the bell and hands the baby off to fellow student, and designated mother,
Alexandra Guerrero, 15, for the next two-day shift.”
6. The most prevalent in this articles is pathos. It is pathos because this article shares a lot of
people’s stories.
7. The possible theme for this text is students will learn better by having robotic babies for practice.
8. This text helped me understand the topic because it used a lot of evidence.
9. The element of the context I may want to change is none.
10. In this article Can Robotic Babies Help Prevent Teenage Pregnancies?, explains that the robotic
babies do help prevent teenage pregnancies. In the article the author uses pathos. For example, by
showing Jefrin’s side of the story. “Jefrin has taken care of the baby for the past 48 hours, and the
typically outgoing and buoyancy teen is clearly exhausted. He arrives at school five minutes after
the bell and hands the baby off to fellow student, and designated mother, Alexandra Guerrero, 15,
for the next two-day shift. This has shown that Jefrin gets exhausted because he has taken care of
the robotic baby. This all explains that robotic babies do help prevent teen pregnancy.
Can Robotic Babies Help
Prevent Teenage
Pregnancies?