1. Providing Evidence for Your Argument Making Your Case FEED D CATS
English 3-Pomerantz

2. Find different types of evidence to support your claim and reasons.
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Find different types of evidence to support your claim and reasons.

3. Facts Examples Explanations Definitions Description Comparisons
Anecdotes
Testimonials
Statistics
Types of Evidence

4. Facts
Honors classes average one hour or more a night of homework while regular classes average about thirty minutes a night.
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5. Examples
One freshman who signed up for four honors classes found that she had forty pages of reading in history and English, twenty math problems, and thirty vocabulary words in Spanish, all of which she had to do after Field Hockey practice.
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6. FEED D CATS Explanations
Homework is designed to help students prepare for class and practice what they have learned, but too much homework can become overwhelming, having an opposite effect.
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7. FEED D CATS Definitions
While there are lots of types of homework, the homework I am referring to is the kind that is rote practice of something I already understand.
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8. FEED D CATS Description
By the end of the night, my desk— scattered with notebook paper, multi-colored flashcards, marked up drafts, a giant graphing calculator, and graph paper—looks like someone has ransacked the place. It’s hard to even find my copy of Catcher in the Rye buried underneath it all.
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9. FEED D CATS Comparisons
Unnecessary homework is like eating when you aren’t hungry—it can have long term health effects including stress and lack of sleep.
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10. Anecdotes
One time, after a long night of homework, I fell asleep at my desk and woke up with a paper clip stuck to my head.
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11. FEED D CATS Testimonials from Experts
A researcher at the University of Homework explains in her 2016 study “Homework is Evil” that too much homework actually can cause students to learn less than if they didn’t have any homework at all.
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12. Statistics
Four out of five students surveyed in the Parkway North parking lot after school one Friday stated that they would prefer not to have homework over the weekend, and one out of five of these students said that he would actually do the homework assigned.
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