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Grade 8 Opinion Writing CCSS: CCRA.W.1, CCRA.W.5, W.6.1, W.6.5, W.7.1, W.7.5, W.8.1, W.8.5

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How could the author best improve this passage?
  1. Add more percentages
  2. Describe how students can get involved
  3. Combine the first two sentences
  4. Include a call to action
Grade 8 Opinion Writing
Using negative words to attack the competition:
  1. bandwagon
  2. card stacking
  3. name calling
  4. testimonial
Grade 8 Opinion Writing CCSS: CCRA.W.1, W.8.1b
Which is NOT a type of persuasive technique?
  1. Analogy
  2. Cause and Effect
  3. Alliteration
  4. Hyperbole
Grade 8 Opinion Writing CCSS: CCRA.W.1, W.8.1b
Which of the following visual arguments contains an ethical appeal?
  1. a designer label on a piece of clothing
  2. a bar chart of 2003 housing construction sales per state
  3. an advertisement of a new multivitamin that shows a pharmacist in a pharmacy
  4. none of the above
Grade 8 Opinion Writing CCSS: CCRA.W.1, W.6.1e, W.7.1e, W.8.1e

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What type of concluding statement does the writer use?
  1. a rhetorical question
  2. a call to action
  3. a personal commitment
  4. a promise to follow-up
Grade 8 Opinion Writing CCSS: CCRA.W.1, W.8.1b
Ethical appeal involves what?
  1. discussing facts, statistics, and analogies regarding your topic
  2. ignoring details that your audience may disagree with in favor of putting your claim in the best light
  3. an appeal to the audience's impressions about the person making the argument
  4. persuading the audience to agree with you by saying that your argument is "good" and "right".
Grade 8 Opinion Writing CCSS: CCRA.W.1, W.8.1b
An appeal to emotions involves what?
  1. the audience's sympathy and feelings
  2. generalized ideas that form a coherent whole
  3. distorting evidence so as to make your claims seem more credible
  4. library research, especially quotes from experts in the field
Grade 8 Opinion Writing CCSS: CCRA.W.1, W.6.1a, W.7.1a, W.8.1a

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What claim does the writer make?
  1. Students need to be more involved in the school.
  2. There are lots of ways for students to volunteer.
  3. Students take advantage of school programs.
  4. Programs can't keep going without student help.
Grade 8 Opinion Writing CCSS: CCRA.W.1, W.8.1b
"It is your right to own a gun." This statement is:
  1. not arguable
  2. objective
  3. bias
  4. the truth
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