05.07 stating your claim unit 05 journey to opportunity 05.07 opening paragraph worksheet instructions: remember, you must use one of the two topics listed in the lesson: • should college athletes be paid to play? • should certain books be banned from schools and libraries? step one: writing your claim 1. complete the following sentence: i plan to prove 2. cross out "i plan to prove that." what remains is your clearly stated position. 3. complete the following sentence: this matters 4. cross out "this matters because." what remains is your purpose for writing. 5. combine these two thoughts into one coherent sentence; this is your claim. your finalized claim: step two: identifying the counterclaim 1. complete

Which of these sentences has an error in subject-verb agreement? a. official procedures calls for students who are tardy three times to serve detention. b. as a result of her efforts, a team of volunteers signs up every month to clean the city's parks. c. the committee of parents protested loudly at the school board meeting. d. each of the neighbors brings a dish to share at the pot-luck gathering.

Study the map below. based on the information shown on this map, which ofthe following locations served as an eastern border for the mongol empire?

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. but there is another story as well. information about sugar spread as human knowledge expanded, as great civilizations and cultures exchanged ideas. in fact, while sugar was the direct cause of the expansion of slavery, the global connections that sugar brought about also fostered the most powerful ideas of human freedom. how do the details in this passage support the authors’ purpose? the details about the expansion of sugar inform readers about how widespread the use of sugar was. the details about human knowledge inform readers about how humans learned about sugar. the details about ideas and global connections persuade readers that sugar’s story has multiple consequences. the details about the spread of information about sugar entertain readers with stories of travel.