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WorksheetsFriday_2/14/2020
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 15mins
Global warming is the result of various factors. One of the biggest contributors to global warming is deforestation. Forests are cleared to make room for housing developments and farms. Trees are also cut down for fuel or to make room for housing developments and farms. Trees are also cut down for fuel or to make products like furniture and paper. As the world population grows, so does the demand for wood.
From the text, you can determine global warming:
Is affected by what humans do.
Makes people cut trees to develop houses and farms.
Has created a population boom.
Is not real.
The largest statue ever sculpted, the Sphinx, is 235 feet long and 66 feet tall. Instead of using separate stone blocks to fashion the gigantic creature, artisans carved it from the living rock of the plateau. The Sphinx is actually limestone that is still attached to the ground along its belly and legs. It reclines in the middle of the quarry. This quarry was not used to build the Sphinx. Workers used many of its stones to build the pyramids and some of the temples associated with them.
An inference that you can make about the Sphinx is that it was ______________________.
a simple arts and crafts project
valuable
easy to push over
light weight
The Sphinx was carved with very simple tools. Among them were copper chisels and pounders of harder stone such as granite and diorite to knock off bits and pieces of the limestone. To do the final shaping and to smooth the surface, the master artisans used sand and sandstone.
What can you infer about the building of the Sphinx?
They were created by hand.
They were machine built
They were built quickly
They were cheap
find or discover by investigation
evaluate
assess
trace
reasoning
to determine the value
evaluate
assess
reasoning
sound
thinking about something in a logical way
evaluate
reasoning
assess
trace
Pieces from the text to prove that your claim is true
support
evidence
reasoning
relevant
What is a thesis statement?
A concise idea that you want to prove, expand upon, or illustrate in your writing.
Your claim to your argument
The sentence that grabs the readers attention
The sentence that transitions into the next topic
The exchange of opposing views
evidence
claims
evidence
argument
The counterargument is...
telling all the big facts
acknowledging the opposing view of the argument
providing supporting evidence
relevant information to support your claim
Today, most of us think of voting as an inalienable right that belongs to all Americans and cannot be taken away. Throughout history, however, many American citizens have not been allowed to vote in local and national elections, either on the basis of actual laws or discriminatory practices. Cultural and political barriers prevented racial minorities from heading to the voting booth every year. It was not until the 1960s that the United States government took serious action to make sure all citizens of the United States could safely and effectively exercise their right to vote.
What is the author’s purpose?
to explain inalienable rights
to explain the difference between local and national elections
to argue cultural barriers
to inform the reader that some citizens were denied inalienable rights
Some southern states did not like these new amendments, and some whites wanted to keep blacks from having an equal place in society. They passed laws that prevented African Americans from voting. Some towns required literacy tests, which were supposed to simply prove the person could speak English well enough to understand the ballot, but in reality they were used to prevent African Americans from being able to actually vote. Others required voters to pay a tax, own property, pass morality tests, or come from certain family lines. All of these laws were designed to do one thing: prohibit members of racial minority groups from voting.
What is the author's purpose
to explain what amendments are
to explain tactics used to prevent African Americans from voting
to argue that African Americans had the right to vote
to argue the use of literacy test
