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Manjit is writing an argumentative essay to support her claim that her high school should not start classes before 9 a.m. This is one of her reasons.Teenagers learn better if they have had enough sleep.

Teenagers who are tired are often tardy or fall asleep in class.

If students start school later, it could make parents late for work.

Students should go to bed earlier so they will not be so tired in the morning.

Teenagers who start school later might not have time for after-school sports.

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Which evidence would best support João's rebuttal? Select three options.

Sleep deprivation harms memory.

Overtired teens are more prone to accidents.

Researchers do not know why human beings need to sleep.

Sleep deprivation has been used as an interrogation technique.

Teens dealing from sleep deprivation lose the ability to focus.

Maddie is writing a rebuttal to the counterclaim that protecting people by refusing certain groups membership on social media sites violates Americans' First Amendment right to free speech. Read her rebuttal.(1) Social media is widely used by people of all ages, including children and adolescents. (2) Children and adolescents are still shaping their understanding of the world, making them vulnerable. (3) Social media provides a platform on which extremist groups can exploit that vulnerability. (4) It is unconscionable to expose young people to potential harm for purely philosophical reasons.

sentence 1 because it is not supported by evidence

sentence 2 because it is unfair

sentence 3 because it does not relate to the topic

sentence 4 because it is not objective

Read the claim from Dan DeLuca's editorial "Dylan's Nobel Prize Settles Debate: Rock Lyrics Are Poetry."Are rock lyrics poetry? The answer must be yes.

"The Swedish Academy's decision to honor Dylan set off an online debate."

"Salman Rushdie, a Nobel candidate himself, called Dylan ‘the brilliant inheritor of the bardic tradition.’"

"Dylan is of course enormously influential."

"The Nobel is given for a body of work."

Read the claim from Anna North's editorial "Why Bob Dylan Shouldn’t Have Gotten a Nobel."Bob Dylan does not deserve the Nobel Prize in Literature.

"He is a wonderful musician, a world-class songwriter and an enormously influential figure in American culture."

"When the Nobel committee gives the literature prize to a musician, it misses the opportunity to honor a writer."

"By honoring a musical icon, the committee members may have wanted to bring new cultural currency to the prize and make it feel relevant to a younger generation."

"Bob Dylan does not need a Nobel Prize in Literature, but literature needs a Nobel Prize."

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