Name: _____________________________ Date: ___________Per. ________
Summarizing and Note-taking Chart for “A Quilt of a Country”
1) What’s a claim? _______________________________________________
2) What’s the d
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​ vidence​?
A reason is ____________________________________________________,
whereas evidence ______________________________________________.
3) When an author presents an opposing side to an issue, he/she is making a _________________________.
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Summary Sentence
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Showing a claim, reason, or evidence?
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Why does Anna Quindlin consider America to be an “improbable idea”?
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