Model Delineating Argument Tool Name: Class: Date: Directions: Identify and record each of the following elements of the author’s argument in the text (or portion of text): central claim, supporting claims, evidence, and reasoning. Text: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Introduction Central Claim of text: akin to a racial caste system currently exists in the United States” (p. 2) “something Central Claim of chapter: akin to a racial caste system currently exists in the United States” (p. 2) “something Supporting huge percentage of [African Americans] are not free to move up at all” in terms of class (p. 13). “[A] Evidence: Reasoning: Supporting Claim: this new system of racialized social control purports to be colorblind, it creates and maintains racial “Although hierarchy much as earlier systems of control did.” (p. 13) Evidence: Reasoning:
Model Delineating Argument Tool Name: Class: Date: Directions: Identify and record each of the following elements of the author’s argument in the text (or portion of text): central claim, supporting claims, evidence, and reasoning. Text: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Introduction Central Claim of text: “something akin to a racial caste system currently exists in the United States” (p. 2) Central Claim of chapter: “something akin to a racial caste system currently exists in the United States” (p. 2) Supporting “[A] huge percentage of [African Americans] are not free to move up at all” in terms of class (p. 13). Evidence: Reasoning: Supporting Claim: “Although this new system of racialized social control purports to be colorblind, it creates and maintains racial hierarchy much as earlier systems of control did.” (p. 13) Evidence: Reasoning:
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