Comparing Genres: Biography and Editorial
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Citing Evidence to Support the Author's Purpose
Which sentence best supports that the author's purpose is to persuade readers the United States should change its
refugee policy?
"If a house is burning, people will jump out the window."
Y last went to Nueva Suyapa in 2003, to write about another boy, Luis Enrique Motino Pineda, who had grown up
there and left to find his mother in the United States."
"The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees recently interviewed 404 children who had arrived in the
United States from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico
"The United States should also increase to pre-9/11 levels the number of refugees we accept to 90,000 from the
current 70,000 per year and, unlike in recent years, actually admit that many."