Claims and Counterclaims
1. School cafeterias should serve healthier food and avoid empty food filled with carbohydrates.
2. Vegetables are not only healthy, but they also keep students from feeling hungry later in the school day.
3. Sweets, like chocolate and cookies, are easily and quickly digested, leaving students hungrier in less time.
4. Some schools serve soda alongside other more healthier drink options like milk and bottled water.
Question 1
Which sentence makes a claim (rather than providing evidence)?
Responses
ASchool cafeterias should serve healthier food and avoid empty food filled with carbohydrates.
School cafeterias should serve healthier food and avoid empty food filled with carbohydrates.
BSome schools serve soda alongside other more healthier drink options like milk and bottled water.
Some schools serve soda alongside other more healthier drink options like milk and bottled water.
CVegetables are not only healthy, but they also keep students from feeling hungry later in the school day.
Vegetables are not only healthy, but they also keep students from feeling hungry later in the school day.
DSweets, like chocolate and cookies, are easily and quickly digested, leaving students hungrier in less time.