Argument ,Claims, and Reasons Grade 7

The best way to describe arguments in informational text would be

• Two people that have different opinions try to use reasons to persuade that their opinion is the correct one.

• two people that get mad at each other if they do not agree with the same opinion.

• Fighting and arguing with someone that you do not agree with at all.

• People taking sides because they do not agree with one another

If you persuade someone to eat chicken liver, then what did you do?

• means that you maybe persuaded them to eat chicken livers one day

• means you persuaded that person to eat chicken livers when they did not really want to in the first place

• means to get someone to change their mind about something

• means you persuaded them to eat beef liver.

What is the difference between an argument and a claim?

• argument is to argue and claim makes a statement about those arguments that the author makes

• argument states an author's position about a topic and claims are statements presented as true to support author's position.

• arguments states the author's position about a topic and the claim is the same thing as evidence

• Argument is made by two people about a topic and then the claim is supporting the argument

What does evaluate mean?

• look really hard at something

• judge the author's arguments

• track the article and identify details

• judge the right and wrong ethics of the persuasion

What is the difference between a claim and evidence?

• Evaluation support evidence and claims support evidence

• Claims support the evidence and arguments

• evidence support the evaluation and claims support the argument

• evidence supports claims and the claims support the authors argument.

How do you evaluate the efffectiveness of an argument?

• Look at the claim and decide if it is weak or strong

• First, look at the reasons/evidence ,and decide if it is weak or strong reasons that support the argument,

• Look at the argument statement only ,and decide if it is strong or weak.

Knowing the difference between True and Falso can help you learn how to evaluate arguments effectively?

• True

• False

A fact should be able to be verified to be true.

• False

• True

Opinions and Facts have to be related and support the argument in a logical way.

• False

• True

An opinion can be verified.

• True

• False