Text Evidence 3

Which piece of text evidence is the best support for this claim/position?
Claim: Individualism brings a greater sense of success to a person because it shows a person they can do things on their own.

• "Collaboration and partnership promotes competition and rivalry" (Source 2). 
• "Effective teamwork allows workers to accomplish projects which are too complex or large for an individual to do alone, which includes all but the smallest of projects" (Source 2).
• "The pursuit of personal success and happiness is a powerful motivation" (Source 2).

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Which piece of text evidence is the best support for this claim/position?
Claim: Dark chocolate is the healthy because it can help reduce a person's health issues.

• In Source 1, Dr Dirk Taubert says, "Dark chocolate -- not white chocolate -- lowers high blood pressure."
• "But that's no license to go on a chocolate binge. You have to balance the extra calories by eating less of other things" (Source 1).
• "Too much dark chocolate can increase a person's health issues" (Source 1).

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Which piece of text evidence is the best support for this claim/position?
Claim: Students can benefit from sitting in places besides regular desks because it helps them think better.

• Sitting on comfortable couches and bean bags helps students stay alert and awake during class.
• Flexible seating confuses students. They need routine in order to adjust well to their learning environment.
• Flexible classrooms give students a choice in what kind of learning space works best for them, and help them to work collaboratively, communicate, and engage in critical thinking.

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Which piece of evidence could BEST be used to prove this claim:
The government SHOULD decide what students eat for lunch.

• School lunches, on average have only about 550 calories;however, lunches brought from home have about 850 calories.
• The GAO report said that students in one district refused to eat school lunches for three weeks.
• The rules make lunches cheap for students, but they cost schools money.
  

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Which piece of evidence could be used to BEST support this claim:
High school students should be required to wear uniforms.

• When adding everything up, a school uniform could end up costing more than $200.
• A student reported, "Allowing us to wear our own clothes gives us a chance to show our unique style and independence."
• At one school that recently required students to wear uniforms, attendence rates went up, and behavior incidents went down.
• School uniforms can be ordered online .

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

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CCSS.RI.7.1

Which sentence is cited  correctly

• The puppy is really cute.
• "The puppy was really cute."
• "The puppy is really cute".

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A direct reference to the text.

• cite
• explicit
• implicit
• inference

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Directly stated

• Implicit
• Explicit
• Infer
• Direct Quotation

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Before the 1800's people didn't have right or left shoes.  They had shoes of just one shape that they used for both feet.  When people first saw right and left shoes, they laughed.  They called them "crooked shoes."  "What a silly idea," they said.  You can tell that shoes before 1800:

• were pretty
• didn't look alike
• didn't fit very well

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When making an inference, it is always important to go back to the text to?

• Quickly skim the text
• Make a good guess
• Reread
• Change your answer choice

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