Have Smartphones Destroyed...
The author of Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
Who is Jean M. Twenge?
The author of "Reality is Broken".
Who is Jane McGonigal?
Presents a position on an issue or topic.
What is a claim?
Mr. Clay's favorite saying all week.
What is "handling your business"?
Born between 1995-2012.
Who are the iGen?
A set of reasons or evidence put forward to oppose an idea or theory developed in another argument.
What is a counterargument?
Something stated directly.
What is literal?
The "Greatest Laker" of all-time.
Who is Kobe Bryant?
This device was introduced in 2007.
What is the iPhone?
The author allows that some of what the opposing argument is claiming is true.
Then, in the rebuttal, the author refutes the rest of the opposing argument.
What is a concession and rebuttal?
Something that can be inferred.
What is figurative?
Mr. Clay's favorite thing to eat.
What are Maryland Blue Crabs?
The number of teens who get together with their friends nearly every day has dropped by more than this percent from 2000 to 2015.
What is 40 percent?
The two opposing parties that McGonigal talks about in the excerpt.
Something used to strengthen an author's/writer's claim. Also known as "proof".
What is evidence?
Mr. Clay's favorite football team.
Who are the Carolina Panthers?
A key time in a person's life in which they must develop social skills; as teens spend less time with their friends face-to-face, they have fewer opportunities to practice them.
What is adolescence?
According to McGonigal, this is the opposing parties view of gaming?
What is a waste of time?
My father used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."
Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Who is Mr. Clay?