You have identified the claim and reason in the
passage. Write a few sentences explaining what the
author will have to do in the rest of the book to develop
a truly strong viewpoint.

Next to the statues and the head, the slab seems
unimpressive at first glance. It is roughly the size of a
tabletop-three feet nine inches long, two feet four and a
half inches wide, and eleven inches thick. But many
experts would say that this rather small piece of rock was
more valuable than any of the larger objects in the room.
For it is the famed Rosetta Stone, which gave nineteenth-
century scholars their first key to the secrets of ancient
Egypt.
- The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone,
James Cross Giblin

Read the passage from a raisin in the sun. mama: lord have mercy, baby. you done gone and bought your grandmother a hat? travis (very proud): open it! she does and lifts out an elaborate, but very elaborate, wide gardening hat, and all the adults break up at the sight of it. ruth: travis, honey, what is that? travis (who thinks it is beautiful and appropriate): it's a gardening hat! like the ladies always have on in the magazines when they work in their gardens. beneatha (giggling fiercely): travis—we were trying to make mama mrs. miniver—not scarlett o'hara! mama (indignantly): what's the matter with you all! this here is a beautiful hat! (absurdly.) i always wanted me one just like it! which word or phrase from the text best supports the idea that the adults think the hat is inappropriate? “have mercy” (giggling fiercely) (indignantly) “what’s the matter”