“A Desperate Trek Across America” is an informational text that chronicles the efforts of Spanish explorers of North America to recover from disaster. Informational texts may be written for a number of purposes, including: to explain or describe a situation or process to analyze a situation by explaining causes and effects to narrate a sequence of events Though informational texts are factual, they may also include the author’s commentary, including judgments, opinions, or conclusions. The evidence and examples included in the text and the way the text is structured support the author’s purpose for writing. As you read, think about the kinds of details the author includes and what they suggest about his purpose. What details does the author include about the explorers’ situation at the beginning of the text? What details does the author include about their efforts to address their problem? PLEASE HELP ME I SUCK AT ENGLISH

The author includes details about the explorer's situation, such as that they hunted animals, roasted them, and ate them to survive, the various reasons why they passed, and how they lost communication with their ships. He also includes details about their efforts to address the situation, such as that they walked thousands of miles, despite being tired and not finding gold anywhere.

Explanation: An informational text explains a situation or has an opinion from the writer that can be inferred. In this text, the author includes details of their situation. He described how they had to hunt to survive and how difficult it was to be healthy due to threatful diseases. However, he also implied some opinions by saying that, although they walked a long distance to find gold and lost contact with their ships, they kept on going and tried to survive.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)