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Teachers have lots of experience with helping students create summer projects, therefore, should be the people who organize them. While the work may seem tedious and difficult at times, teachers are simply just trying to assist in helping you gain the knowledge and understand it. By giving students a lot of work, teach...
Evidence
Effective
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If a student is engaged, they are more likely to succeed. Teachers engage students by designing summer projects in a way that interests them. A student who is engaged in their project is more likely to receive a good grade than a student who showed no interest in it at all. Teachers typically try to stick to things tha...
Evidence
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Challenges can motivate students into working their hardest and trying their best. While some may argue that challenging work actually causes students to be less inclined to do summer projects, it actually motivates them more. Statistics show that students who are challenged receive better grades than those who are not...
Evidence
Effective
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Teachers can organize a summer project better than students because they are highly experienced in doing so. Teachers find ways to engage and challenge their students which leads to a higher passing rate. So while student-designed projects can be fun and easy, it's more effective when summer projects are teacher-design...
Concluding Statement
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Summer assignments are required by a multitude of schools accross the state of Virginia. But some school districts are considering breaking from the traditional teacher-designed summer projects and instead replacing them with projects designed by the students
Lead
Effective
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This may reflect student desires, however, it does not reflect what is best for the students education. Summer projects should be designed by teachers rather than students because it would be in the students own best interest.
Position
Effective
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Summer projects are intended to be used as preparation for courses students are going to take in the upcoming school year
Claim
Effective
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Therefore, how could students be sure of what content should be emphasized; what ideas are the most important; and what materials, such as books and web sources, are the best? Furthermore, teachers will have a far greater knowledge of the courses at hand. Often times theachers will have particular material they want to...
Evidence
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Some may claim that in order to have effective learning, students themselves must control the different components of their eductation.
Counterclaim
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While this may be true for some aspects, such as selecting the courses they wish to take, this should not be the case for summer assignments. This is because many students may take advantage of an opportunity to design their own summer projects, by making them as quick and easy as possible. While this may allow student...
Rebuttal
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if teachers were to design summer assginments, they would be far more rigorous, but more importantly, they would be more beneficial for students for the upcoming school year.
Claim
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If student-designed projects are too easy, they end up simply becoming busy work. More difficult teacher-designed projects would challenge students, which may seem unappealing to many, however in order to grow academically, students need a stimulus to respond to. Moreover, students become stronger learners when they ar...
Evidence
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Although student-designed summer projects may appeal more to students, they will ultimately privide significantly less benefit to students' education, than teacher-designed projects would.
Concluding Statement
Effective
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One of the reasons is that there could be very sick poeple you go by and it might make you sick and sad to see that poeple are sick. Or it could be dead bodies floating in the ocean which might smell bad and make you sick to your stomach. Also feading farm life That will make you STINKY and smell bad. Also where does t...
Evidence
Adequate
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I would not want to live there for two weeks it would be smelly nasty gross and disgusting.
Claim
Ineffective
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The ride would be long
Claim
Adequate
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also I would be very homesick i would miss my family my friends and pets. Also what happens if you crash you you float out to see or get rescued or drown or live on to tell the tale? What would happen to the animals? would THEY drown or THEY float away or They survive or you could get eaten by sharks! Or get impaled b...
Evidence
Ineffective
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For my second to final papagraph I would 1 Not want to get sick. 2 I would not wanna get killed. 3 I would not want to get impaled by debrie. 5 I would not want to get eaten alive. 6 I would not want to see sick or dead poeple on my trip 7 I would not want to crash and get stranded 8 I would not like o drown 9 I would ...
Evidence
Ineffective
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What would happen if you have to eat the animals then no more food for the poeple who need it and it would be cruel and you cant drink plain ocean water it needs to be distilled and run out of water faster. And if you fall over board you could get left behind or get saved and live to tell the tale or get thrown overboa...
Evidence
Ineffective
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So in conclusion I would not want to join the "Sea Cowboys"
Position
Adequate
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Mars has aliens!
Lead
Ineffective
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Many people believe that the landform on Mars was created by aliens, but here at NASA we have found that landform was actually created naturally
Position
Adequate
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The landform is referred to as a Martian mesa, which is common in the region of Cydonia, but this has shadows that make it appear as if the figure has a face.
Claim
Effective
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Some consipiracy theorists say that the form was actually created by aliens,
Counterclaim
Adequate
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but why would we want to hide the fact that there is life on Mars when in reality it would benefit here at NASA.
Rebuttal
Adequate
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The landform is Martian mesa formation much like the Middle Butte in the Snake River of Idaho.
Evidence
Adequate
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The Martian mesa was naturally formed, but with its shadows, it looks much like a face. In 1998 Mars Global Surveyor was close enogh to actually see if there were any alien monuments and turns out that there wasn't any.
Evidence
Effective
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Here at NASA we recieved a lot of attention when the "Face" was discovered.
Evidence
Adequate
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The landform had no monumemts near it when looked at by the Surveyor. "Defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars." People wanted there to be something because it would benefit us.
Evidence
Adequate
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In the end, the landform was found to be a Martian mesa. There are many mesa's in the region of Cydonia and that's a part of how we found out how it was a natural landform. Also the Surveyour verified that there wasn't any other monuments near the landform. If there was any life on Mars we would want to tell the people...
Concluding Statement
Effective
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I believe there is life on mars.
Position
Ineffective
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I believe there is life on mars because of the photos because of the talk around town.
Claim
Ineffective
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On May 24,2001 NASA sent Viking 1 in to outer space but what it found were still trying to figure out could there be life on Mars. The Viking sent back pictures of mars carved into it was a illusion of eyes nose and mouth so let me say again can there be life not just on earth but on Mars the question is still to be an...
Evidence
Ineffective
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This passage is about a germany mom from the suburban pioneers where the commuting executives have gone before they given up their cars street parking , driveways also home garages are generally forbidden in this experimental new district on the outskirts for freiburg near the french and swiss borders vaubans streets a...
Evidence
Ineffective
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Have you ever wondered what someone else was feeling on the inside? With the introduction of the Facial Action Coding System; this allows you to do just that by having it interpate someone's facial expressions, and then having it respond back with a variety of emotions from that specific person.
Lead
Effective
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The Facial Action Coding System should be enabled across the United States
Position
Adequate
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the mechanism allows you to figure out what someone is feeling at a given time
Claim
Adequate
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it allows an instructor to make alternative lessons if their students are proven bored from FACS.
Claim
Adequate
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Firstly, the FACS does not allows students to hide themselves and pretend to be someone they are not.
Claim
Effective
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The FACS will pick up emotions that a student is feeling and teachers, parents, and or consoulers will be able to get the help that that particular student aqquires. "To an expert, faces don't lie; these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a "smiling" politicain or celebrity isn't being truthful." This same co...
Evidence
Effective
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Secondly, the Facial Action Coding System can change the way lessons are tought to make them more encaging and exciting for students.
Claim
Effective
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If the FACS picks up that students are bored out of their minds; instructors will be able to change the lesson for future students so that they are paying attention and actual learning from the lesson. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." and "then it could modify the les...
Evidence
Effective
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In conclusion, FACS should be incooperated in all classrooms nation wide because how many times are a kid did you tell you parents at the dinner table that you did not learn anything at school? With the FACS that topic at dinner can be changed because the FACS can modify lessons if the students are bored or confused so...
Concluding Statement
Effective
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You should become a Seagoing Cowboy like me, Luke Bomberger!
Position
Adequate
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a Seagoing Cowboy gets to experience places from all over the world
Claim
Adequate
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have a lot of freetime on the way back
Claim
Adequate
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you also get to help people that are in need.
Claim
Adequate
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Get to explore places you've never been to!
Claim
Adequate
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Just take it from me, "I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing the Acropolis in Greece was special. So was taking a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water. I also toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on my way to China" That shows that you can s...
Evidence
Adequate
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You also have a lot of free time on the way back from a trip.
Claim
Adequate
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When we unloaded all of the animals, "The cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed. Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games also helpes pass the time." We enjoyed the rides back, but even that isn't the best part!
Evidence
Adequate
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The best part of being a Seagoing cowboy is helping people.
Claim
Adequate
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When I became a Seagoing Cowboy, "It was 1945, World War ll was over in Europe, and many countries were left in ruins. To help these countries recover their food supplies, animals, and more, 44 nations joined together to form UNRRA. UNRRA hired "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that w...
Evidence
Ineffective
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Well, I hope that I convinced you into becoming a Seagoing Cowboy like me. It's everybody's world. Let's help save the people in it.
Concluding Statement
Ineffective
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Do you think we should put facial action coding system in our classroo
Lead
Adequate
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I think using technology to read the emotions expressions in a classroom is a good thing
Position
Adequate
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it tells you where your students are bord in class, see if they are mad in class, and tell someone is tired in the classromm.
Claim
Adequate
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See if the someone is bord in class is a good thing because you can make the subject or class more fun
Claim
Adequate
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That will make the student pay more attention in class because they won't be messing or not paying attention in class any more. In paragraph 6 it says "A classrom computer could recoginze when a student is becoming confused or bored." What they meant by that is the computer would put a different lesson than instead mak...
Evidence
Adequate
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The facial action coding system could tell a person if they are tired because the computer can tell by their muscles. It will tell the teacher wich student is tired so they teacher can do something about it. It will help out a lot of the teachers from telling who's falling asleep.
Concluding Statement
Ineffective
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If you're reading this article, I'm guessing you want to be a Seagoing Cowboy. It's an interesting job. It doesn't require any special skills or years and years of experience. You just have to know how to take good care of animals and not get seasick easily. It's not that hard. Read on; I'll show you why.
Lead
Adequate
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There are a lot of great reasons to join the program.
Position
Adequate
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When I was a Seagoing Cowboy,(Yes, I was!) along with helping other countries get back on their feet, I got to see awe-inspiring things
Claim
Adequate
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such as the Acropolis in Greece and the Panama Canal on my way to China.
Evidence
Ineffective
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Taking care of the animals wasn't that hard.
Claim
Adequate
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Sure you had to clean the poop-ridden stalls and carry up heavy bags of oats, but the animals made great company. On rides back home, you could relax and play games with the rest of the crew.
Evidence
Adequate
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Being a Seagoing Cowboy could be dangerous, too. Once, after making my hourly report to the captain, I fell down a slippery ladder and almost went overboard and died! Luckily I got away with only a broken rib and more caution. People in the countries we aided could've been hostile. Seas could've been violent. Storms co...
Evidence
Adequate
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most of my trips were safe ones
Claim
Adequate
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When I was a Seagoing Cowboy, it opened up the world to me. I saw that the world wasn't all sunshine and rainbows, like the little me thought. The world was full of unfairness and was my job, everybody's job, to help stop it. I stepped up to do my part by joining the Seagoing Cowboys. Do your part. Join the Seagoing Co...
Concluding Statement
Effective
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I wouldnt use this Facial Action Coding System on students
Position
Adequate
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it those enables computers to dentify humans emotions but not real ones
Claim
Adequate
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it just shows the human emmotions byt the expression but not the real emotion that the human is feelin, Mona Lisa's natural face might be like that but not because the Facial Action Coding System identified that she has several different emotions showing in that paint from Da Vinci means that she was for real feeling t...
Evidence
Adequate
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But sometimes its true the Facial Action Coding System might be true
Counterclaim
Adequate
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Dr. Huang observed that Da Vinci has studied anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emotions.
Evidence
Adequate
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Dr. Huang predicts that it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor.
Evidence
Ineffective
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I t says that the same technology can make computer animated faces more exoressive.
Evidence
Ineffective
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I believe that the Facial Action Coding System works perfectly good and does indentify humans expression like Dr. Haung said but not real emotion becasue the person can just be expressing some emotions but that doesn't mean they feeeling it that way.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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The "Face on Mars" is really not a a face at all. In fact, it is simply a landform.
Position
Adequate
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There is no alien remains or anything like that. It sure does look like a face, but that was merely a coinsidence.
Evidence
Adequate
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First of all, to prove this is a landform and not aliens is, there is only a face, no body
Claim
Ineffective
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If this really was aliens there would be a body to go along with this face. From the picture provided in the article, I can clearly see that there is a face and a fce only. Absolutely no body found. In fact, there is not even a bump or anything proving this has no body and aliens would most likely have a body if they h...
Evidence
Adequate
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The second reason as to why this cannot be an alien is, if it was an alien NASA would have found more than one by now.
Claim
Adequate
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This landform was first discovered in 1976. That is a long time ago. If this truely was an alien that once had life, there would most definetly be more than one. But, there is not. There is only one. This is another reason proving this is not aliens, but just a landform.
Evidence
Adequate
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The third an final reason why this is nothing more than a landform, not aliens, in it would have been identified by now.
Claim
Adequate
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NASA would have came out and said it already. There is no way we can actually prove that is actually an alien. But, we have classified it as a landform. We even have other landforms on earth to compre it too. Many say it is equivalent to a butte or mesa(many things found in the American Mest). "It reminds me most of Mi...
Evidence
Adequate
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In conclusion, this is not aliens. This is simply a landform. Even though it does look like a face we have supporting details that back up our argument. It is clearly not an alien. Everything needed to prove this is tight in this essay. I hope that now you have come to your senses and agree with me.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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If i had to write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable, it would be like this, i would say that it is really valuable
Position
Adequate
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because they are telling us what emotions really mean, what they can or just do for us and just why emotions are important to us, in a way that it really matters.
Claim
Adequate
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First, here are the real main reasons that they really matter and they are, First, its like when you are doing a test, you are really focused on it, you will get really stressed on it and might not know what to do at all and you might need help on it, so the computer could tell if you were stressed and that you didn't ...
Evidence
Adequate
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Some people might say that the (FACS) is not valuable
Counterclaim
Adequate
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and just isn't smart because it might not get the correct percent or because it might not do everything or just a few things wrong,
Evidence
Adequate
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but that doesn't mean that also doesn't mean that it might do a lot of things right either.
Rebuttal
Ineffective
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The last thing that i am going to say that i am arguing that the use of technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom, is this, like if a computer knows if you are happy or sad, it would do this, it would pull up an ad one might be sad and then the other one would be exciting and just make you...
Evidence
Adequate
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So those aere the reasons that i would want a use of technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom that is valuable.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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Are principle has decided to make all students participate in at least one extracurricular activity
Lead
Ineffective
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I think students should not have to do a extra activity
Position
Adequate
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some kids have other things to do
Claim
Adequate
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it should be a praivlage to do a extra class because some kids dont get good grades, or they just dont want to
Claim
Adequate
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I think if you are failing a class you should focus on that grade and bringing it up and getting it to at least a C or B . I also think that kids that get in trouble shouldnt be allowed to because they didnt listen or did something they wasnt suppose to . Why give a kid this if they dont listen, they dont deserve to do...
Evidence
Ineffective
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If students some students did this and some students didnt do this it would be easier on the teacher in that class because schools have a lot of kids, and if you was to split the whole school up into activities there is going to be 1 teacher and a lot of kids.
Claim
Adequate