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12.35 Evaluate Claims and Counterclaims in Nonfiction Worksheet

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This British & World Literature English worksheet provides structured practice on 12.35 Evaluate Claims and Counterclaims in Nonfiction. Students are guided through targeted exercises that build foundational understanding, computational accuracy, and critical thinking skills.

ELA.12.35 | Synthesis, Analysis, and Use of Textual Evidence | Grade 12 ELA practice skill covering Synthesis, Analysis, and Use of Textual Evidence.

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Problem 1Difficulty: Mastery

Source A: A policy blog argues standardized testing increases accountability. Source B: A statistical review finds high-stakes testing can narrow curricula and that score gains sometimes fade when tests change.

Which sentence best synthesizes the sources for a conclusion paragraph?

AAccountability is the only goal of schools.

BWhile testing can create accountability pressures, evidence that high stakes narrow curricula and produce unstable gains suggests accountability should be balanced with broader measures of learning.

CTesting should be removed with no replacement.

DCurricula never narrows.

Solution & Explanation:It acknowledges the pro-testing argument but incorporates research-based drawbacks to argue for balance.

Problem 2Difficulty: Mastery

In a novel, the narrator claims she is forgetting her past, yet the narration is filled with precise sensory details from childhood.

Which evidence best supports an analysis that the narrator's claim is unreliable?

AA passage naming the city.

BA passage describing the main plot conflict only.

CA passage with short sentences.

DA passage where she says she is forgetting and then provides vivid, detailed childhood sensory memory.

Solution & Explanation:Detailed recall contradicts the claim of forgetting, supporting unreliability.

Problem 3Difficulty: Mastery

Source A: A methods guide warns that p-hacking increases false positives when researchers test many variables and report only significant ones. Source B: A news article celebrates a surprising link found after researchers tested 40 correlations but does not mention multiple-comparisons corrections.

Which evaluation best uses the guide to critique the news article?

AThe link is true because it is surprising.

BBecause testing many correlations raises false-positive risk, the article should report corrections or preregistration; otherwise the link may be a statistical artifact.

CStatistics are fake.

DResearchers should never test more than one variable.

Solution & Explanation:It applies a methodological principle (multiple testing inflates false positives) to a specific reporting problem.

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