H#05: Relevant Evidence Practice

Select the IRRELEVANT evidence for this claim: Schools should require all students to be involved in after-school activities.

• After-school activities will help students be opened up to many job opportunities.

• Students may not have the time after school for activities due to homework or at-home responsibilities.

• Activities will help students with social skills as they learn how to do activities with other students.

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Select the IRRELEVANT pieces of evidence for this claim (CHOOSE MORE THAN ONE): Schools should require students to wear uniforms.

• Families would save money by not buying as many clothes for school.

• Uniforms are expensive.

• Students would not be able to express individuality at school.

• Students would not break the dress code at school.

• Students would not bully others for their clothing.

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Select the RELEVANT pieces of evidence for this claim (CHOOSE MORE THAN ONE): Students should not be able to have phones in school.

• Phones cause distractions in classrooms.

• Phones are essential in case of emergencies at school.

• Phones create access to cyberbullying in school.

• Phones help students look up information in the classroom.

• Phones help students cheat in classrooms.

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What is relevant text evidence?

• Evidence that directly leads to the inference

• Any quote from the story you use in an answer

• Any paraphrase from the story you use in an answer

• Everything a character says

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Choose the evidence that supports this inference: Samson does not like attention.

• "Samson tucked some of those beans in his pocket..." (pg. 8)

• Samson was dark and broody. (pg. 5)

• Samson believed his turtle was alive. (pg. 23)

• "Samson slipped...to go hide somewhere like a dusty gray moth." (pg. 25)

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Support the relevant evidence that supports this inference: Will thinks Mibs is an interesting person.

• "Their dad’s in the hospital. Show a little sympathy.” (pg. 25)

• "I’d always been curious about Will." (pg. 24)

• “I’ve always known there was something different about you, Mibs Beaumont," (pg. 101)

• Will gave Mibs a pen set for her birthday.

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What inference does this evidence support? "All I could think was that maybe there was something I could do to help him. I could wake him up." (pg. 150)

• Mibs hates the homeless man's tattoos.

• Mibs doesn't want the man to be outside.

• Mibs believes her savvy could help people.

• Mibs wants to get away from the school bus.

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What inference does this evidence best support? "You may be a decent waitress—when you manage to get yourself here on time—but I’ve had it." (pg. 171)

• Lill has hidden kids in the back room before.

• Lill has brought friends to work before.

• Lill steals pie very often.

• Lill is late to work all the time.

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What is the best evidence for this inference? Lester is a kind person.

• Lester steals the pie from the diner. (pg. 176)

• Lester stops to rescue Lill. (pg. 135)

• Lester's tattoos don't like him. (pg. 132)

• Lester can't sell pink Bibles (pg. 55)

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Choose the relevant and credible evidence:

Claim: People who drink and drive should lose their license for a minimum of five years. Reasoning: The current suspension of one year is not working because there are still many people who drink and drive.

• Evidence #1: There’s no reason why people should be drinking and driving because we have Uber now.

• Evidence #2: KOAA news reports that in Boston, “318 deaths alone in 2017 were caused by drunk driving” (Huth 5).

• Evidence #3: For example, in one year “over 10,00 arrests were made for drinking and driving” (Wendell 1).

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