ANNOTATION STEPS: 1. Find your claim (thesis statement) and put it in bold font.
2. Remove from your claim any "I think" or "in my opinion" or "I feel like..." language.
3. Make sure your claim shows up near the beginning AND near the end of your writing
Please put both claim statements in bold font
4. Find your 2 or 3 pieces of evidence (in quotation marks, directly from the story) and highlight them in light blue.
4. Find your 2 or 3 pieces of evidence (in quotation marks, directly from the story) and highlight them in light blue.
5. Highlight each citation (Jacobs 13) in a darker blue.
6. Highlight your REASONING in gold.
7. (Optional) If you chose to include transitions bridging one example to the next, highlight those in red/pink.

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.

Read this passage from "the city without us" by alan weisman: which statement best explains how the structure of the passage supports the author's purpose? a. the passage traces several events in the order that they will occur to highlight how nature conquers human civilization. b. the passage shows that natural forces such as an absence of predators and an increase in the squirrel population can lead to destructive results. c. the passage shows that natural forms such as an absence of predators and human hunters can lead to the reforestation of new york city. d. the passage identifies how two natural forces are co-dependent - the deforestation of new york and the extinction of squirrels.

Fill in the blanks by identifying the verb or verb phrase [verb], and gerund [gerund] in each sentence below. i ate a sandwich