Writing Workshop: Geography, Industrialization, and Imperialism Answers

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?

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

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

Read an excerpt from an informational document.We hereby declare that Korea is an independent state, and that Koreans are self-governing people. We proclaim it to the nations of the world in affirmation of the principle of the equality of all the nations, and we proclaim it to our posterity, preserving in perpetuity the right of national survival. We make this declaration on the strength of five thousand years of history as an expression of the devotion and loyalty of twenty million people.

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 either column?

Which statement best describes the introduction of a document-based essay?

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Which facts support the thesis that Japan treated the Korean people as inferior? Check all that apply.

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