1. Determining Claim
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2. The Target I can determine claims.
I can determine claims, explain how they relate, and give 1-2 details showing development through the text.
I can determine multiple claims, explain how they relate, and give 3+ details showing development through the text.
I can determine multiple claims, explain how they relate and give 3+ key details showing development through the text.

3. How Do I Find the Claim? Look to the beginning and the end
Note the main idea of each paragraph
Look for differences in paragraphs
Do they support one another?
Build off each other?
Is there an outlier? Counter-claim?

4. Detail versus Claim
Claims are typically opinions—they do not stand well alone
Details are typically fact-based or considered to be “truth”
Logos: logic or reason, such as facts or data
Ethos: authority, such as an expert’s opinion or a leader’s word
Pathos: emotion, an appeal to human feelings
Details prove claims

5. Claims Together Multiple claims tend to help each other
Problem—Solution
Cause—Effect
Multiple claims can connect to more readers