Your school district is considering requiring a student to earn community service hours in order to graduate. Write an editorial for your school’s newspaper arguing whether a school should require a student to earn volunteer hours in order to earn their diploma. Your essay must be based on ideas and information that can be found in the passage set. 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.

• use evidence from multiple sources; and

• avoid overly relying on one source.

Your response should be in the form of a multi-paragraph essay. Write your response in the space provided.