AnswersAZ-English Language Arts 11 B-CRResearch Workshop: Writing and Presenting the Argumentative Essay, Part 1

Research Workshop: Writing and Presenting the Argumentative Essay, Part 1 — Cumulative exam Answers

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Consider this prompt for an oral presentation.Take a stand! Decide your opinion on the proposed meal tax in our county, then present an argument for or against it.Which thesis statement best addresses this assignment?

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Our county is one of five counties in the state deciding whether or not to levy a meal tax on its citizens.
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A meal tax allows the collection of revenue from tourists and nonresidents, reducing the burden on local citizens.
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A meal tax is intended to collect an extra tax on meals served in restaurants or purchased “to go.”
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The county Board of Supervisors will vote on the meal tax after election day so they can represent the citizens’ opinions.
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Read the excerpt from Brown v. Board of Education.Reargument was largely devoted to the circumstances surrounding the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868.The Supreme Court studies the Fourteenth Amendment to determine

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the primary authors of the document.
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whether its intent has been compromised.
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how it has been interpreted in each state.
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whether it needs to be repealed.
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Which sentence best uses academic vocabulary?

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In the last stanza of the poem, the elderly woman expresses anxiety about her family members who live far away.
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In the last stanza of the poem, the old woman seems upset about her family, who live in a faraway land.
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In the last stanza of the poem, the elderly woman worries about her family members who live pretty far away.
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In the last stanza of the poem, the old woman seems to care about her family who don’t live nearby.
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Read the excerpt from A Man's World.FRITZ—Oh—but de talk—de talk—I can't stand it for you. When you go out like dis people don't believe it is for your work. They say you have a lover—they say he writes your books.FRANK—That's very flattering. It means that they think they are too good for a woman to do.Which best describes why this excerpt is ironic?

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Frank should be insulted that people say that a man writes her books, but she actually views it as a compliment.
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Fritz feels that Frank should not go out alone, but Frank does not seem to care what other people think.
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Frank actually has a man who writes her books, but she denies this fact because she does not want people to know.
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Fritz warns Frank that people will question why she is going out alone at night, but it is actually Fritz himself who does not want her to go.
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Which excerpt from “Soldier's Home” is the best example of irony?

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Krebs went to the war from a Methodist college in Kansas. There is a picture which shows him among his fraternity brothers, all of them wearing exactly the same height and style collar.
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His lies were quite unimportant lies and consisted in attributing to himself things other men had seen, done or heard of, and stating as facts certain apocryphal incidents familiar to all soldiers.
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Nothing was changed in the town except that the young girls had grown up. They all wore sweaters and shirt waists with round Dutch collars. It was a pattern.
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There had been a great deal of hysteria. Now the reaction had set in. People seemed to think it was rather ridiculous for Krebs to be getting back so late, years after the war was over.

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