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Writing Prompt

How Technology Affects Our Society

Students will write an argumentative essay about how technology has helped or hindered our society.

Students Will:

Write arguments with sufficient evidence to support a claim. (ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.1)
Conduct research to answer a question. (CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.7)

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