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One of the extracurricular activities you can choose is playing a sport.
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Sports help you out in a number of ways. They could help you stay in shape. You can make friends or develop stronger bonds with them. They also can be a lot of fun, and pave way for a future career in that sport. There are lots of sports to choose from, so the options are endless!
Evidence
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Another way to stay involved with your school is to work on the yearbook.
Claim
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The yearbook is made annually by students, and is good to put on your resume if you want a career in photography. Helping out with the yearbook actually helps the school too. If students like the yearbook, they will buy it, which gives the school more money to spend on improving itself. You also get to hang out with friends while working on the yearbook, which is always nice.
Evidence
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If those activities dont appeal to you, you could serve on the student council
Claim
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Serving on the school council helps develop crucial skills like leadership and decision-making. It is also a very good experience if you want to pursue a career in politics later on in life. The decisions you make while on student council can help out the school a lot. You can improve key areas of the school and make life better for the students who go to the school.
Evidence
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Learning new things about yourself is always good, and extracurricular activities help you do just that. Maybe you're a great hockey player. Maybe you discover a passion for photography you never knew you had by working on the yearbook. Maybe you're actually a great leader. There are so many things you can discover about yourself by participating in extracurricular activities. Things that you would never know about if you didn't try an extracurricular activity.
Concluding Statement
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The counterclaim: Our travels on earth and beyond sold not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. The evidence is in paragraph 6 many reasearchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to or knowledge of venus.
Evidence
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In the article "The challenge of exploring venus", Mostly talks about venus is worthy pursuit despite the dangers it could be .
Position
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One reason why it's dangerous is because no one have maded to venus.
Claim
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For example in paragraph 2 in sentence 5 it states, "Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reasons, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours". Another example in paragraph 2 sentence 6 it states, "maybe the issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on venus in more than three decades.
Evidence
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A second reason why it's dangerous is that NASA is exprienceing new object to see if they could land in venus.
Claim
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For example in paragraph 5 in the second sentence it states "NASA possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of venus." A second example on why NASA is using objects is in paragraph five sentence four it states "A vechicle hovering over venus would avoid to unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way".
Evidence
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A third reason why it's dangerous is that humans are not believing and wanting to go to venus.
Claim
Ineffective
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For example in paragraph eight it states "Striving to meet the challenge presented by venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but humans curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endevors".
Evidence
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"The challenge of exploring venus" Is worthy pursuit despite of danger for these reasons, Alstranouts not landing, NASA making a new object to try to land, and humans not wanting to believe what's happeing and wanting to go to venus. I perdict that those were why the author suggest that studying venus could be dangerous.
Concluding Statement
Ineffective
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Joining the Seagoing Cowboys program would be a great opperatonuty for you.
Position
Adequate
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This would let you see the world in a differnt way.
Claim
Adequate
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You would get to travel the world. See differnt things and go siteseeing.
Claim
Adequate
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This opperatonuty would let you have fun with work and and with your job by working with animails
Claim
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this oppertonuty would let you see the world in a differnt way.
Claim
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It would make you aware of people and people of there other contries and there needs. It might evan lead you closer to makeing something good in this world. It led Luke Bombergers family to do amazing things like hosta number of international students and exchange visitors for many years.
Evidence
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this oppertonuty would let you travel the world , see new thing, and meet new people.
Claim
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On return trips after the animails have been unloaded you can paly games like Baseball and Volleyball games where the animails used to be hosted. Boxing, tabeltennis, fencing, whittiling, reading, and playing games also made it fun and let time pass quickley.
Evidence
Ineffective
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Some people might say it would be to boring to be on a ship in the middle of the sea with nothing to do and they would miss friends and families because it a long trip.
Counterclaim
Adequate
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On the ship you have jobs and on the return trips you can play games in the stalls where the animails where hosted.
Rebuttal
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They might also say they have no point in doing this.
Counterclaim
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This would be a great oppertunity for anyone who loves farming evan if you don't you could learn a great lesson from this Seagoing Cowboy program.
Rebuttal
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going on this trip would be a great oppertonuty for any one. You could get a great life lesson out of this and you could meet new people and see differnt things. you could also have lots of fun on the return trips and with your jobs. You would get to play lots of games. If you get a good oppertonuty take it because most people don't get chances like this.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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The authors suggustin that we should study Venus is worh it
Position
Adequate
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even though it will be really hard to get anyhing back from there
Claim
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becasue there is only drownes that could go so that they can pick up rocks"safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on good " conditions becasue most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense almosphere " even though we are able to have drownes go there we wont be able to bring any of them back with rocks or some air from that planet. The other reson for them would be that they would have to send real people to go and get some samples but that would be to dangerus
Evidence
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"scientist seeking to conduct a through mission to understand Venus would need to get up close"
Claim
Ineffective
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despite being hard for them to try and study Venus. The authors suggetion on the story is very help full i can see why some peolpe would like to keep on going with there owm this time. even though people might not want to look any closser to Venus i belive it would be alot helpfull if we learn alot more of what is out there in space.
Concluding Statement
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Students will be way more benifited if summer school projects were to be student-designed instead of teacher designed
Position
Adequate
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Allowing for student to design their own project will allow them to explore and learn how to do projects on their own.
Claim
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This will allow them to be more independent and responsible on doing projects on their own and managing their time to do school work.
Claim
Adequate
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It also be way more fun then doing a teacher-designed project !
Claim
Adequate
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If students were to do teacher-designed projects then they will be guided to do a better project overall and will learn stuff that can actually benifit them in the coming year
Counterclaim
Ineffective
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It can also refresh their memory on material they already learned and keep them engaged on education and not on wasting time. Also if the the summer projects were teacher-designed then. If students were to a teacher-designed project than it will fit into a criteria where it is easier to grade. This will allow the teacher to grade them quickly and give feedback to improve the students knowledge and to help solve the mistakes. Also if students did a teacher-designed project than they can have better instructions making it easier and more quickly to get the project done faster allowing them to have a better summer. But it will also keep them engage with school work because it was a teacher-design and the material on it should be instructed and given from the teacher.
Evidence
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The students will be able to have more freedom when making a student-designed project.
Claim
Adequate
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With more freedom students can explore subjects that they don't know about, or want to know more about. This can also make students get more creative with the project when it comes to design or topic that others may find interesting. If students had more freedom with their project allowing them to be creative and showing the teachers what they can do could benifit them because the teacher can give the student more opportunities when doing future projects. Also if the school some very creative project than the student can be recommended to events or major schools in the future. Also when giving students more freedom it can allow them to express themselves or maybe make a point when doing a project on their own. Also when doing a teacher-designed project then students will fell more restrained and more like they are forced to a project. If students had to do their own designed project than they would probably do it more willingly.
Evidence
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when allowing the student to their own student-designed project it can make them more responsible and independent.
Claim
Adequate
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This will make the students more independent because they will have to the project on their own with no guide or instruciton on how to do it making them do it by themselves. And of course responsible because the student is responsible to get the project done and to turn it in with their own design. Letting a student their own project can help them because could get them to do their work and use their own knowledge.
Evidence
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If the students were to do their own student-design project than they will have fun.
Claim
Adequate
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If they are having fun than they will be more engaged on the project and interested allowing them to do better. When they have fun doing there project than it's a more enjoyable experience. It will also teach them how to manage time during the summer to get their project done. Also the student will have all the summer to design their own project allowing them to above and beyond and do something very creative that can influence others and impress the teacher.
Evidence
Adequate
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Overall a student-design project would be better because it allows the student to explore and have freedom with their design and project allowing them to create cool and complex projects. This would also make student responsible and independent because they have to make their own design project. And overall it would be very fun allowig the student to be engaged with their project and really get into their project making it better.
Concluding Statement
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the face is just a natural land form and not something created by Aliens
Position
Adequate
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we have done real research on the Landform
Claim
Adequate
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Not only that but when we took the pictures we used our camera’s absolute maximum resolution so it would be as clear as possible.
Claim
Adequate
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Plus the evidence has changed
Claim
Ineffective
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Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo. So we know that the planet is changing and thats how we know that the landform isn't created by Aliens. Plus we have a Surveyor which is a mapping spacecraft that normally looks straight down and scans the planet like a fax machine in narrow 2.5 km-wide strips. The number one way we know it is a land form and not something created by Aliens is because “As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size,” he added. “So, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!”.
Evidence
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Also we have pictures from 1976, 1998, and 2001 that shows its change and that it's a landform.
Evidence
Ineffective
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Luke wants other people to join the seagoing cowboy program. He wants people to join it so that persons life would change
Position
Adequate
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he wants to help the people that doesnt have enough food or their house got destroyed
Claim
Adequate
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It will help you because when we are done giving our will to that person he or she will want to help other people too.
Evidence
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he could take care of any animal that is damaged or hurt and he will take care of them when they are shipped overseas. It will be an opportunity of a lifetime for your animal because we will treat them well and give them enough food for them to survive. When you see people treating the animals they will want to be part of the group so
Evidence
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he can help other people or animals
Claim
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It will be an opportunity of a lifetime because you get to travel overseas
Claim
Adequate
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probably see the place that you always dreamed of going to.
Evidence
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Also you might want to have the animal you were taking care of because you worked hard on taking care of it. Maybe when your children grow up they will want to be part of the Seagoing Cowboy program
Evidence
Ineffective
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When you return from the trip overseas you will never forget about it because you will want to tell the whole world about how much fun you had. When you tell the people how much fun you had hey will want to join the Seagoing Cowboys program. Also on the trip back home you unload all the animals you can play volleyball games and other games that will help pass the time. Also you will always remember the trip of a lifetime
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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Would having car free cities be easier for everyone, or would it make a huge impact on our society? It could go from commuting executuve or fewer soccer moms.
Lead
Ineffective
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Driveways, home garages, and street parking and forbidden in the experiment of the outskirts on the nee district. In a place called Vauban's streets are completly "Car-free". The only places that are not car free are downtown near the tram. You can only have two places to park and those two places are home, and large garages only at the edge of the developement it costs $40,000. Fifty-seven percent sold a car to move here, and seventy percent of families do not own a car. They say "When I had a car i was always tense. Immuch happier this way". Suburbs have linchpin called automobiles. Up to fifty percent in some car- intensive areas in the U.S.. and up to twelve percent of green house gas emissions in Europe. A home to 5,500 residents withing a rectangular square mile, it may be the most advanced experiment in a low-car suburban life. They say " All of our development since World War II has been centered on the car, and that will have to change". A fast-growing coalition of hundreds of groups in the U.S. are promoting new communities that are less dependent on cars. The EPA is promoting a "car reduced" communities, and legislatrors are acting cautiously. Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city, after days of near-record pollution. Odd and even numbered plates were threatened to keep there cars home or forced to lay of fine of $31. Just about 4,000 drivers were fined. Sixety percent of congestion was down. China is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world. Taax policy favors Diesels over gasoline. Sixty-seven percent of diesels make up vehiclals, compared to 53.3 percent average of diesel engines in Wetern Europe. There is typically more smog in Paris. There were one hundred and forty seven micrograms of particulate matter per cubic meter, and this is compared to one hundred and fourteen and 79.7 reuters found. According the the BBC, public transit was free of charge from friday to monday. The smog had cleared enought monday for the ruling french party to rescind the ban for odd-numbered plates on Tuesday. Millions of Colonbians hiked, skated, biked, or took busses to work during a car free day yesterday. Cars have been banned for 3 years now in colombia, there are only taxis, and busses left there a seven million people in that city. The goal was to promote alternitive transportation and reduce smog, violatoors faced a tenty five dollar fine. They said "The rain hasnt stopped people from participating". "It;s a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution". Cali and Valledupar, had joined the event. "These people are generating a revolutionary change". It has been seen to see one hundred and eighteen miles of bicycle paths. New restaurants and upscale shopping districts have ctopped up. Parks ans sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city. Rush hour restrictions have dramaticlly cut traffice. Uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks.
Evidence
Ineffective
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This is what i think should happen with out society. Car-free days would be a new thing for everyone
Position
Adequate
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We have some pretty l;azy people in the world.
Claim
Adequate
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Aliens are real, Frank I'm telling you. The aliens made that face on Mars. Why do you think that, Grayson? No one can step on Mars. If a person steps on Mars, they will die. No one has ever been to Mars, Still to this day. Are you sure about what you are saying? I'm sure about this. Aliens live in the galaxy. They can step on any planet whenever they want to and not die.
Lead
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Well I have something to say. Aliens do not exist.
Claim
Ineffective
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If they were real, they would have took over the world. They would have been making us do work every single day. f they came here they would probaly have killed us by now. Have they killed us, have they started making us do work? No, they haven't.
Evidence
Ineffective
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Grayson? Yes, Sir? I heard you and Kevin talking about how aliens made that face on mars. Both of you are wrong. You were right about the no aliens part, but everything else was wrong.
Evidence
Ineffective
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We just now figured out that it was just another Martian mesa. It is common enough in Cydonia.
Claim
Adequate
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When we took the picture, I have got a lot of e-mails saying "what is that thing?" I even got a e-mail from Michael Bay saying that he is going to use that image for a movie. This stuff is crazy!
Evidence
Ineffective
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The picture is accually the Martian of a butte or mesa. It's common across the American west.
Position
Adequate
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I hope we can find more stuff like that. Me too that was a wierd experience.
Concluding Statement
Ineffective
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Ths technology is has helping the humans by their invention over the time.
Position
Ineffective
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The software that detect how people are feeling, while they are try to hide their emotions
Evidence
Ineffective
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The system is called the Facial Action Coding Systemis now on variety of industries.
Claim
Adequate
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It classifien on the basic emotion like happy, surprise, anger, scary, and sad. The computer it structure by a 3-D model of the face to detect their feeling.
Evidence
Ineffective
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When you are happy and smile looking on the computer it going to detect, so how has you been.
Claim
Adequate
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In school, is better and helping in students doing better on their grades so, facing to the screen of your classroom that students if they are boring or just confused on their class. Showing student they don'tlike the class by their teaching. Also students it just wanted it to be an interesant topic on each of their class. It also developing wat to communicate with humans and computers.
Evidence
Adequate
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It help us by recognize the face of our peer, "For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face.
Claim
Adequate
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Of course, most of us would have troubles actually describing each facial triat conveys happy, worries, etc.". Just the computer can know the feeling you feel. if we face with an angry face but meanwhile it showing a happy face to us."They even indicate the difference between a genuine smile and a forces one". By identifity a real smile not a fake one its muscle it go the cheek. A fake smile the mouth its stretched sideway
Evidence
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Is describe how the computer can detect on a real face or just on a painted face descrbing of the facial movement were. The muscle of the facial is not expresses their emotion, and also can structure of their face with a smile. By feeling other their emotinos it can also us feel it,as just of creating an emotions. Describing a face is can't lie because of their different muscles, is just telling the truth of your self. It just to communicate between humans and computers with their feeling.
Concluding Statement
Ineffective
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In "The Challenge of exploring Venus," the author suggests that studying venus is a worthy pursuit despit the dangers it presents
Position
Adequate
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One that really stood out was when he said that Venus was a lot like earth
Claim
Adequate
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It has mountens, vallys, hills and exetra.
Evidence
Adequate
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They said one way we could get closer and see more is if we sdend a "vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape".
Claim
Ineffective
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I thought that was a smart idea becaue if the ground is to hop to stand on and be on, having something hover over it is a grat Idea.
Evidence
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They also said that Cenus is like our "sister plant". They say this becaus it has proven to be one of the "most Earth-like planer in out solar system"
Claim
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That is also a cool fact. I also read in the story that Venus is not the closest to the sun but yet it still is the hotest planet. In passage 4 it states, "The planet (venus) has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar future". This is a intesting fact
Evidence
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my question to the auther would be , "Doesnt Mars have rocks and mountens? So, can mars be a sister planet to Earth as well or am I wrong?"
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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Summer assignments can be very beneficial in ensuring that students are continuously learning, but the question at hand is, should students personalize their summer assignments or should a teacher-designed standardized copy be given to every student?
Lead
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I believe that students should be able to design their own summer assignments
Position
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only the student knows what they need to improve on,
Claim
Effective
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teachers may attempt to take advantage of this opportunity by assigning a tremendous amount of work
Claim
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one standardized paper does not facilitate each individual students needs or learning styles.
Claim
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some may believe that it is better for the teacher to design the assignment, because the teacher knows what students need to improve on, so the teachers would provide students with exactly what they need to practice. They might also believe that if a student was to design the assignment, they would purposely make it simple and deny themselves the opportunity to learn. They may also agree that teachers should make the assignments because the teacher is in a position of power in the classroom.
Counterclaim
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Although, the teacher is responsible for teaching the class, the student is responsible for knowing which areas they need improvement on. Every student is different, one student may find challenging, another may find it easy. For example, in my geometry class, most students find proportions simple, whereas I find them rather complex and challenging. If I were to design my own summer assignment for geometry, I would include a lot of proportions to ensure I get the needed practice. This is just one of the example of how students know where they need improvement and how a student can help promote their own success.
Rebuttal
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Teachers are meant to assist students in excelling at the necessary curriculum in order to pass the course, yet some times they overbear students with work.
Evidence
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Some students learn better visually, so their summer assignments should include many videos, some students learn better kinetically, so their summer assignments should include hands on activities, and others learn better by hearing, so their summer assignments should include audio material such as pod casts.
Evidence
Effective