12 fFUN ez pts! dont answerr if dl the answer simple

go on usatoday and find a story

Newspaper:

1. What is the main topic?

2. What is the opinion presented?

3. What techniques can you identify that help to influence the audience?

4. Provide two examples or details used that support the author’s opinion.

5. Provide two facts from an outside source that are used to support the

author’s opinion. (If there aren’t facts, suggest what could have been

added to make this editorial stronger)

6. Find two sentences that are examples of clear, strong writing. Explain why

(techniques, wording, example).

7. How effective is this article in helping you to form your own opinion about

this issue?

How does this quotation add credibility to freedman'sstatement that the immigrant voyages were not pleasant? read edward corsi's quotation from the book immigrantkids by russell freedman.edward corsi, who later became united statescommissioner of immigration, was a ten-year-old italianimmigrant when he sailed into new york harbor in 1907: the officers of the ship went striding up and downthe decks shouting orders and directions and drivingthe immigrants before them. scowling and gesturing,they pushed and pulled the passengers, herding usinto separate groups as though we were animals. afew moments later we came to our dock, and thelong journey was over.o it is from an actual immigrant who experienced roughtreatment by the ship's workers.it is from an actual sailor who herded the immigrants likeanimals on the decks.it is from an actual writer who wrote about a fictionalfamily immigrating to the united states.it is from an actual historian who studied the immigrationexperience at ellis island.