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rodderickjack
05.08.2020 • 
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HELP ASAP 30 POINTS 1. In the article on school gardens identify the bolded statement: “The school garden movement is preventing students from spending necessary time in class. Already over-crowded school days have no more time to give to non-academics.”
Claim
Evidence
Warrant

2. Read the following statement. What is the author’s position on group work in schools? Group work is transforming American schools. More and more schools are arranging classrooms so that students can work in groups. However, this does not work for every student. If students aren’t social and dynamic, group work can be difficult. Some students are like artists. These students work best alone, painting the pictures they see in their own heads.

The author is in support of group work.
The author is not in support of group work.
The author is neutral, or has no position, on group work.

3. Identify the statement that can be used as a claim to support the author’s position. Increases in class sizes negatively impact students' learning, and a law should be passed to limit the number of kids in one class.

States are passing laws to limit class sizes.

Too many students in a class gives students the opportunity to learn to help one another.

When students can not get one-on-one attention from a teacher, their learning suffers.

4. What is the position of the author on biking? Write one claim found in the paragraph to support this position. How do you know it is a claim?
Explain your answer.
Biking is an easy, effective way to exercise. You get all the benefits of a fancy workout at a fancy gym just buy strapping on your tennis shoes and going for a ride through your neighborhood. Anyone new to exercise should give biking a try!

5. Identify the statement that uses data from a research study to support the idea that antismoking ad campaigns are effective in getting people to stop smoking.

The ads, which will run on TV and in newspapers, show 10 different smokers talking about the terrible health consequences of smoking.

Fifty-thousand smokers quit smoking due to the ad campaign.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found in a recent study that approximately 3.4 million teenagers smoke.

6. A is a claim that argues for or against a certain policy approach to a problem. An author might ask, “What should we do about it?”
claim of facts
claim about solutions
claim about value

7. When an author uses words directly from the original text and encloses them in quotation marks, this is called:

Quoting Paraphrasing Summarizing

8. Which types of textual evidence can be used to support claims? What are each of the four types, including statistics and quotes from a reliable expert. Choose one to describe in more detail. Your answer should be 3 to 4 sentences long.

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