Supporting Ideas with Evidence
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Objective
I can select evidence from a text that supports a specific idea.
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Warm-up video
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Key concepts
3 concepts
- 1
According to the video, readers must choose the best text evidence to support a claim.
- 2
In the Supreme Court case, Nicks versus Hen, the court had to decide if a tomato was a fruit or a vegetable for tax purposes.
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The video claims that the best evidence to support the court's claim is that tomatoes are used like vegetables because they are usually served at dinner and not for dessert.
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Practice
12 questions
What is the central task readers face when asked to support a claim with text evidence?
According to the video, what was the central question in the Supreme Court case Nix v. Hedden?
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Exit ticket
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“Which sentence from the text best shows why the Supreme Court decided tomatoes should be taxed as vegetables, not fruits? Write the sentence.”
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