Student Climate Change Draft: Claims and Evidence

The student writer is considering adding the following sentence to the passage to clarify a position.

It will undoubtedly affect millions of lives around the world.

Where would the sentence best be placed?

• (A) After sentence 1

• (B) After sentence 2

• (C) After sentence 3

• (D) After sentence 4

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CCSS.RI.9-10.3

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

The student writer is considering revising sentence 5 (reproduced below) to clarify the reasoning related to the information in sentences 4 and 5.

Millions will relocate inland, increasing housing costs and adding pressure to inland cities to support these new residents.

Which of the following versions of the underlined text best achieves this purpose?

• (A) (as it is now)

• (B) The loss of this land will force millions to relocate inland

• (C) This land was useful

• (D) Millions will relocate have to move

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CCSS.W.9-10.2

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The student writer wants to add more information to the passage to serve as evidence of future dangers of climate change. Which of the following statistics best helps accomplish this purpose?

• (A) It is estimated that worldwide 150 million people are living in areas that will be underwater by 2050

• (B) At the end of the last century, three million people had already been displaced by climate change.

• (C) Three out of five people believe that humans are causing climate change.

• (D) Ice in the arctic is already melting a full two weeks earlier than it was just 30 years ago.

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CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.8

CCSS.W.9-10.2B

The student writer wants to revise sentence 7 (reproduced below) from the draft to better articulate a claim that both requires defense and provokes interest.

While many people argue over the cause and who to blame, people must

recognize that the world is going to change.

Which of the following versions of the underlined text best achieves this purpose?

• (A) (as it is now)

• (B) the effects go uncontrolled.

• C) people must prepare now for the inevitable consequences of climate change.

• (D) people pay too little attention to the effects of climate change on animals and plants.

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CCSS.W.9-10.1

CCSS.W.9-10.1A

The student writer wants to add to the beginning of sentence 4 (reproduced below) in the draft (adjusting the capitalization and punctuation as needed) to better embed the quoted material within the writer’s ideas in the passage.

“The entirety of many island nations and large portions of other countries with low-lying coastal lands, including the United States, will be underwater.”

Which of the following would best accomplish this goal?

• (A) Severe changes will arrive sooner than expected as

• (B) Climate change simply cannot be stopped because

• (C) Experts agree that

• (D) While many argue that

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CCSS.L.9-10.2

CCSS.W.9-10.1C