1. Which piece of evidence best supports the claim that -students should have sports class in middle school-?

2. What is the other side of the issue (opposite of your claim) called?

3. Which of these transition words would you use in the counterargument paragraph?

4. The evidence below best matches which claim?

-Teachers often stay late at work, plan and grade student work at home and spend many hours on weekends planning lessons for the week.-

11. The thesis statement in an Argumentative text must briefly mention the ideas of the topic sentences that will be developed in the body paragraphs.

Going out in the burning sun without sensible protection is extremely dangerous. The first reason is that you can get extremely sunburnt. The second reason is that you can get horrible skin cancers because of damaging light rays. Another reason is that too much time out in bright sunlight can damage your eyesight. Remember to wear a hat, put on a shirt, use sunscreen and wear sunglasses.

What is the author's claim?

Facts, quotations, examples, anecdotes, and statistics can all be used as _______________.