Essay: How Maya Changed Her Garden and Community

Read the passage “The Last Seedling.” Write a four-paragraph essay responding to the prompt below. Your essay should include an introduction, two body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Use evidence from the text to support your ideas. After you finish, you will receive feedback to help you improve your writing.

Write a four-paragraph essay answering the prompt below. Be sure to:

• Write an introduction that gives background and states your main idea.
• Write two body paragraphs that use evidence from the text to explain how Maya’s actions led to changes in the garden and the community.
• Write a conclusion that summarizes your main points.
• Use specific examples from the story to support your answer.

✏️ ESSAY: STAAR Extended Constructed Response 

Prompt

Read the passage “The Last Seedling.”

Explain how Maya’s actions lead to larger changes in the garden and in the community.

Write a well-organized response using evidence from the text to support your answer.

In your response, be sure to:

• Analyze how Maya’s decision to help the seedling begins a chain of events in the story
• Explain how other characters respond to Maya’s actions
• Use specific text evidence to show how the garden changes and why those changes are important