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12/27/2017
Name: Carlos Mayorga Date: Period: 4th

Argumentative Essay Graphic Organizer

Prompt: Re-read and analyze the passages/texts listed below. After reading the passages, write a well-developed,
multi-paragraph essay that argues whether or not education leads to power. Use specific details from at least two
of the texts we’ve read.

Topic Poverty and Racial discrimination.

Target Audience I will write my essay in formal language.
(Mrs. Day)

Claim (in essence,
this is your paper’s The ignorance of society towards the underprivileged.
thesis)

Reason 1 Not having everything in the world can make you appreciate the little you have.

Supporting Evidence Supporting Evidence Supporting Evidence
“By evening the ice melted to water “All you could think about was “I was pregnant with poverty.
for washing. I got sick a lot that winter noontime; would it ever come? Pregnant with dirt and pregnant with
because the fire would go out at night Maybe you could sneak into the smells that made people turn away.
before the clothes were dry. In the cloakroom and steal a bite of some Pregnant with cold and pregnant with
morning I'd put them on, wet or dry, kid's lunch out of a coat pocket. A shoes that were never bought for me.
because they were the only clothes I bite of something.” Pregnant with five other people in my
had.” bed and no daddy in the next room,
and pregnant with hunger. Paste
doesn't taste too bad when you're
hungry.”

Commentary Commentary Commentary

Even though this 7 years old kid When things get harsh you can do When you are born in this world
didn’t have the necessary things things you wouldn’t imagine doing. underprivileged you start to
he kept a strict discipline to keep This kid throughout the day suffer appreciate the little you have. Eating
his clothes nice and clean. Clothes hunger and the only chance he had uncooked is not very tasty nor healthy,
hygiene is an important aspect of was at night when his neighbors but you can’t be choosy when you
one's dignity no matter your were at sleep. That’s when he don’t have anything else to eat.
wealth. sneaked into their homes to finally
put something in his stomach.

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