Explain whether the author's choice of words and phrases effectively describes the robots and their behaviors. In your response, use words and phrases from the passage that support your explanation. Write your answer on your answer document.

Annotation: The reader agrees that the author's word choice is effective because "she uses words that we can relate to everyday." This is supported with the comparison of robots to a flock of birds and their size to a shoebox. However, the reader does not explain the relationship between the familiarity of flocks of birds and the size of a shoebox to "everyday" things. The reader might extend the idea of "everyday" to include the simplistic, accepted behaviors the robots are programmed to execute.

Annotation: The reader agrees "that the author's choice of words effectively describes the robots" and explains this by describing the robots "as a migrating flock of seagulls" and "it shows how they moved in unison ...to each other as birds do." The reader also explains that the robots took on human characteristics when collecting the pucks by "fighting over them" and becoming "greedy."

Annotation: The reader agrees that "the author used effective phrases" and describes them as "more advanced terminology." The reader supports this statement with the author stating "to disperse when they're too crowded to avoid collision" instead of "saying move apart so they don't crash." The reader continues by referring to the "four characteristics" of the robots, their nickname "Nerd Herd," and the explanation of the two way radio but does not relate any of these references to the idea of "advanced terminology."