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springs instead of the fulcrums that allowed Rich DiGirolamo, suggests that adults drop
one kid to jump off at the bottom, causing the whatever they’re doing next June 21 and
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other to drop abruptly, as if down an elevator “play tag and dodgeball, jump rope and eat
shaft. And every piece of bubble-wrapped watermelon.”
playground equipment — excuse me, playscape Surely seven-year-olds deserve to do the 10
equipment — is festooned with labels that same. And so National Recess Week was
warn of deadly consequences for the smallest observed in September, with Recess Rallies
misuse. in schools around America. The PTA and the
If all of this has you saying, “Give me a Cartoon Network are sponsoring a Rescuing
break,” you’ve just voiced a universal human Recess campaign. Something called the
need. We all need a break. Some Teamsters American Association for the Child’s Right
get two 15-minute breaks per shift, the to Play is also eager to resuscitate recess.
Supreme Court is in recess from July to Octo- All of them agree with G.K. Chesterton, who
ber, and the third Thursday of every June is wrote, “Earth is a task garden; heaven is a
National Recess at Work Day, whose founder, playground.”

CLAIMS AND EVIDENCE

1. What is Rushin’s claim? Explain how the evidence supports the claim.
2. The writer gives three reasons for the problem. Indicate the three reasons.
Describe the evidence that supports the reasons.
3. Choose one piece of evidence. How is that evidence relevant to the reason and
the claim, not just the topic?
4. Rushin’s text is persuasive. What is his literal and figurative call to action?
5. Rushin ends the text with more evidence. How does it affect his argument?

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