If you use "completing the square" algorithm, the equation results in y=(x +1)^2 - 7; it's graph will be a "normal", up-opening parabola, whose vertex (lowest point) is at (-1, -7), intersecting the y-axis at (0, -6), and has a mirror reflection of all of its points, with x= -1 as axis of symmetry). You can get a good "sketchtimation" of the curve by finding the mirror image of (0, -6) across the axis of symmetry and guesstimating the rest of the curve from those 3 points. Your sketch should be close to the one the first responder suggested you plot using a table of values. There are two, symmetric intersections with the x-axis, but they are irrational numbers that are harder to plot unless you have a table of square roots: -1 + sqr rt of 7 ,and -1 - sq. Rt of 7.
