Activity 1. Directions: Fill in the table with the information you learned about fact and opinion Definition
Qualities
Sources
1. Fact
2. Opinion
Activity 2. Directions: Write E if the statement tells about fact and the statement tells about opinion
your answers on the space provided.
1. It contains adjectives, comparatives, and superlatives,
2. It can be found in encyclopedia, books, dictionaries, maps, and research works
3. It is based on personal beliefs.
4. It is about personal interpretations and cannot be verified with evidence
5. It can be proven through experiment or observation.
6. It can be verified with evidences.
7. It shows what a person thinks, feels, or believes.
8. It includes numbers, dates, and ages.
9. It contains data and research,
10. It is preceded with 'I think, I believe, or I feel'.​

Read the excerpt from part 2 of zeitoun. zeitoun woke with the sun and crawled out of his tent. the day was bright, and as far as he could see in any direction the city was underwater. . he could only think of judgment day, of noah and forty days of rain. and yet it was so quiet, so still. nothing moved. he sat on the roof and scanned the horizon, looking for any person, any animal or machine moving. nothing. as he did his morning prayers, a helicopter broke the silence, shooting across the treetops and heading downtown. why does the author include the details of zeitoun’s morning? to suggest the hopelessness of zeitoun’s situation to illustrate the solitary existence endured by survivors to establish zeitoun’s dedication to the rituals of his faith to reveal the military’s attempts at assistance

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were a wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.

Do you think that the american culture has defined what “normal” is and so our perception of chris mccandless is skewed based on that?