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e for the passage. Use evidence from the text to support your response.
Student 3

The title of the passage “Drew Brophy: Living Life His Way" is the central idea of the story. Drew Brophy did not listen to people when they told him, "you can't do that."

In the text it says, “When people told me you can't do that, I didn't listen.” Drew is stubborn but determined. This means that the found a way to do what he loves but still pay his bills.

Additionally, Drew held true to his dreams even when he was “broke and starving." He lived through difficult times and never gave up. He has an indomitable spirit.

In conclusion, the central idea of the passage is living life your way like Drew Brophy. Even when people tell you that you can't do something, you should never give up. Hard work helps you achieve your dreams.











TDA Prompt: Writers often use titles to introduce a central idea in a text. Write an essay analyzing why the title is appropriate for the passage. Use evidence from the text to support your response.

Student 4

In the passage “Drew Brophy: Living His Way," the reader learns about a man named Drew Brophy who fought the odds and ignored the people who told him to give up when all he wanted to do was follow his two passions in life, painting and surfing. The author uses the title to reveal the central essay of the passage, which is living life your way. This title is appropriate to the passage because the author shows the reader how Drew lives his life and that he does it on his own terms.

One way the author shows the reader that Drew lives his life his own way is when Drew ignored his guidance counselor's warning, you can't just paint and surf your whole life.” This is important because it shows Drew's self-confidence and drive. He was confident enough in himself as a teenager that he followed his own hart despite what the adults in his life were telling him to do. This scene also makes the reader wonder if this incident with the guidance counselor made Drew even more determined to live his life on his own terms.

The author also uses the title to show the reader how Drew's choice to live his life his own way has paid off in the long run. By ignoring the naysayers and following his heart, even through some difficult times," Drew has created a life that allows him to travel, paint, and surf. His different view of life and his willingness to take risks have provided him a life of adventure and passion. But Drew isn't stopping there. He continues to push forward in life and learn new and exciting things about the world and himself.

The author of “Drew Brophy: Living Life His Way” uses the title of the passage to further emphasize Drew's life journey and how his belief in himself created his indomitable spirit.






TDA Prompt: Writers often use titles to introduce a central idea in a text. Write an essay analyzing why the title is appropriate for the passage. Use evidence from the text to support your response.


Student Sample 5

Drew Brophy lives an adventurous life as an artist, surfer, and world traveler. He has achieved this quality of life through determination and by blazing his own path. From a young age, Drew had an inner drive to do what he wanted to do despite the adults in his life telling him otherwise. This is reflected in the central idea of the text, and is expressed in the title as “living life his way." The title of the text is appropriate to the author's intent of further capturing Drew's spirit and illustrating Drew's unique view on life.

In paragraph 4, the author provides the image of a "surfer riding a huge wave, perfectly timing the wall of water above his head.” This image also serves as a metaphor for Drew's life, meaning that despite the impending wall of water, or life, Dre continues to elude the dangers and hard times hanging over his head to do what he most enjoys. This is a powerful image because the danger of the wave mirrors the struggles in Drew's life that he has overcome.

Another way that the author conveys the central idea of "living his life his own way," is by sharing the fact that Drew, a successful artists, did not attend or receive formal training in art school. Like so many other areas of his life, Drew developed his own techniques that are primarily based on his life experiences. Just as in life, Drew is constantly reflecting on his past experiences to improve himself, he is also constantly reflecting on his part artistic experiences to evolve in his artistic endeavors.

By structuring the central idea of the text around the title, “Drew Brophy: Living His Way," the author relates the extraordinary life of a man, Drew Brophy, who has lived an adventurous life his way and on his own terms.

Answer 1

Answer:Drew Brophy grew up along the coast of South Carolina, searching for big waves and drawing

whatever caught his interest. From an early age, Brophy knew his two passions in life, but few

people believed in his chosen path.

When he was in high school, his guidance counselor warned him, “Drew, you can’t just surf and

paint your whole life.” Some might label Drew Brophy stubborn or naïve; others will see him as

confident and determined; but the life he has lived will lead most people to label him nothing

short of amazing.

Today Brophy is an acclaimed artist on an international scale, and his surfing remains a major

incentive to his travels around the world. He now lives in San Clemente, California, where he

paints, designs, and—waits for the next opportunity to surf.

Drew Brophy was asked to talk about his life. “I had it in my head that I had one life to live, and

I wanted to do the things that I wanted to do. When people told me, ‘You can’t do that,’ I didn’t

listen.”

There were times when Brophy was “broke and starving.” With only his confidence, his

insatiable curiosity for the world around him, and his ability to paint, Drew Brophy held true to

his dreams.

“Every day, I read and study about the things I’m interested in. I study physics and weather and

ancient cultures and nature.”

Brophy delved into one of his driving beliefs—that everything in the universe is interconnected.

“You see patterns in nature, the way cells divide. You see it in snowflakes. Now that I’m aware

of it [interconnectedness], I see it everywhere. I learn something new every day that blows my

mind.”

When he was young, Brophy knew he looked at life differently from everybody else. He knew

that he needed to keep working at his love of surfing and at his love of art so that he could make

a living. A ravenous appetite to know more and a willingness to take risks were driving forces

behind Brophy’s constantly emerging style. According to Brophy, “It’s my job to make things

look cool.”

Have you ever seen a surfer riding a wave, perfectly timing the wall of water just above his

head? Brophy has crafted a way to translate that level of “coolness” onto much more than

surfboards. Though owning a Drew Brophy surfboard is certainly a status symbol among surfers,

Brophy knew he could broaden his audience by painting murals and canvases. Selling his art is

how Drew Brophy finances his yearning to search out the next wave.

He has crisscrossed the globe to locales where big waves attract great surfers. For a time he lived

in Hawaii, riding that perfect crest of Pipeline, the big daddy of all waves. His success as an

artist has afforded him opportunities to find these unique places—California, Australia, South

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