Many kids today participate in contact sports. Football, boxing, hockey, and mixed martial arts are all examples of contact sports in which the participants necessarily come into bodily contact with one another. Write an essay in which you take a position on whether or not kids under
the age of 18 should continue to be allowed to play contact sports. Use
information from the “Contact Sports” passage set to support your position.

Manage your time carefully so that you can
read the passages;
plan your response;
write your response; and
revise and edit your response.
Be sure to
include a claim;
address counterclaims; (7th and 8th)
use evidence from multiple sources; and
avoid overly relying on one source.

Your response should be in the form of a multiparagraph essay. Write
your response in the space provided.