Interim 3 Practice

An Author's Argument: Interim practice

Poll

When you watch a commercial or see an advertisement, what draws your attention to the content?

• The humor and catchy phrases that are hard to forget.

• Emotional ads that make me feel something about the product.

• Seeing common people speaking about the success of the product.

• Celebrities endorsing or supporting a product.

Reading arguments and objective summaries.

When reading passages, you may be asked to provide an objective summary. Remember this term. An objective summary is a short account of the central ideas of a text or story retold in your own words with essential information.

Just the FACTS! Objective summaries are all about facts, not emotions or opinions

Keep your opinions to yourself!!!

Multiple Select

Check for Understanding:

Which sentence is written objectively.

Check all that apply:

• Barack Obama is the first black President of the United States of America.

• When Obama became President, it was the biggest and most important election in the history of our country.

• Barack Obama graduated from Harvard University, the best college in America.

• Barack Obama was the 44th President of the United States of America.

Multiple Choice

An author's central argument in their writing is the _____.

• claim

• evidence

• supporting details

• reasons

Multiple Choice

What is an argument?

• enough evidence provided

• an attempt to convince others to think or act in a certain way

• facts or supporting information that provides proof of a claim

• a statement of the author's perspective that must be proved

Multiple Choice

(True or False) Claims are facts and can be proven.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Claim: All high schools students should be required to take a foreign language to make them more competitive. 

Which piece of evidence BEST supports the claim above?

• You will learn another language. 
• Learning another foreign language is a waste of time.
• There is little evidence that many students achieve much fluencey in high school. 
• Learning another language improves students' vocabulary and grammar skills. 

Multiple Choice

Identify the claim below:

People get pets so that they will never be lonely, and they will always have a friend to be there for them. Ask your heart, what makes the best pet??? Some people think a best pet is a rabbit, or a dog, but it is clear that cats make the best pet. Cats are cuddle bugs, he’s playful, and cheap.

• People get pets so that they will never be lonely
• Ask your heart, what makes the best pet??? 
• Cats are cuddle bugs, he’s playful, and cheap.
• it is clear that cats make the best pet.

Multiple Choice

What is evidence?

• Support for the counterclaim

• What the defense is trying to prove or defend against

• The attorney's final statement to the judge or jury in a trial

• How the claim is right; proof, expert witness, research...

Multiple Choice

Why does an author include reasoning?

• To show you how smart they are.

• Facts to prove a point.

• To support the claim.

• To support the evidence and show how the evidence supports the claim.

Multiple Choice

Which statement offers the strongest support for the statement below?

Plastic grocery bags are better for the environment than paper grocery bags.

• Paper grocery bags are often assumed to be more environmentally friendly than plastic bags, but they still harm the environment.

• Reusable cloth bags are best for the environment, but plastic grocery bags are the next best option.

• Plastic grocery bags require less energy to manufacture and are more likely to be reused or recycled than paper grocery bags

• Plastic grocery bags take significantly longer to decompose than paper grocery bags, but they will eventually decompose.

Multiple Choice

Define Central Idea.

• A clash between two opposing forces in text.

• What the text is about.

• The highest or most intense point in a narrative.

• The beginning of the story where the characters and setting are introduced.

Multiple Choice

That statement, "As of 2016, Coca-Cola sold its products to citizens in 90% of the countries in the world; Pepsi sold to the second highest percentage, at 75%." is _____.

• a claim

• evidence

Multiple Select

A text may have more than one central idea and that each paragraph or section has its own central idea.

True or False

• True

• False

Multiple Select

Your summary should only include main ideas and key points, not supporting details.

True or False

• True

• False