Writing Workshop: Geography, Industrialization, and Imperialism Answers

Read an excerpt from an informational document.The Japanese set up their own school system that taught Japanese, and banned Korean language and history. They promoted the Japanese Shinto religion by setting up shrines in villages, at a time when many Koreans were Christian. They promoted Japanese business, and confiscated Korean lands. Korea became a place to sell Japanese goods, and raise rice for the Japanese people. Despite the official policy of one nation, many Japanese people considered Korean people inferior.

The graphic organizer includes facts about Great Britain and Japan.Column A: Great BritainColumn B: JapanThe British Empire stretched across Asia, Africa, and the Pacific.Japan expanded into Manchuria between 1930 and 1939. A student made this graphic organizer to help write an informative essay. What does the organizer imply about Great Britain and Japan?

During the revision phase, a writer should make sure a document-based essay includes

The graphic organizer explains the structure of an informative essay.The thesis statement should be included in the

The map shows the British Empire in 1900.This map could help a writer draft a document-based essay about the British Empire because it

Read the opening line from a draft of an informative essay.This sentence is not effective because

To support the thesis of a document-based essay, a writer must include both

Read the excerpt from an informational document. [I]f we could but induce our retired merchants, engineers, doctors, solicitors, barristers, judges, and civilians to make India permanently their home, what an amount of talent and ability, political experience and ripe judgement, we should retain in India for the benefit of us all! All these great questions in regard to the financial drain on India, and those questions arising from jealousy of races and the rivalry for public employment, would at once disappear. And when we speak of the poverty of India, because of the draining away of vast sums of money from India to England, it has always seemed to me strange that so little thought should be bestowed upon the question of the poverty of our resources caused by the drain of so many men of public, political, and intellectual eminence from our shores every year.—Badruddin Tyabji, 1887

Read an excerpt from an informational document.The Japanese set up their own school system that taught Japanese, and banned Korean language and history. They promoted the Japanese Shinto religion by setting up shrines in villages, at a time when many Koreans were Christian. They promoted Japanese business, and confiscated Korean lands. Korea became a place to sell Japanese goods, and raise rice for the Japanese people. Despite the official policy of one nation, many Japanese people considered Korean people inferior.

The graphic organizer includes facts about Great Britain and Japan.Column A: Great BritainColumn B: JapanBritish Empire stretched across Asia, Africa, and the Pacific.Japan expanded into Manchuria between 1930 and 1939.A student made this graphic organizer to help write an informative essay. What fact could be added to column B?