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2. Identify at least two pieces of supporting evidence from the passage and briefly 2
explain how they support the claim you identified in (1).

Holloway’s Claim

Reasoning
Underlying Claim Section 1 / Culminating Activity

Supporting Explanation of
Evidence for Claim How It Supports
Claim

Supporting Explanation of
Evidence for Claim How It Supports
Claim

To Unite a Divided America, Make People Work for It

Jonathan Holloway

If we Americans listened to one another, thinking that our followers on social media are
perhaps we would recognize how absurd our our friends. They aren’t. They are our mirrors,
discourse has become. It is our own fault that recordings of our own thoughts and images
political discussions today are hotheaded played back to us, by us and for us. We feel
arguments over whether the hooligans good about ourselves, sure, but do we feel good
storming the halls of the Capitol were taking as citizens? Do we feel good as Americans? Are
a tour or fomenting an insurrection; if we we better off? Is America?
broadened our audiences, perhaps we would There are many problems in America, but
see the fallacy of claims that all Republicans are fundamental to so many of them is our unwill-
committed to voter suppression and that all ingness to learn from one another, to see and
Democrats are committed to voter fraud. respect one another, to become familiar with
It seems like an easy challenge to address, people from different racial and ethnic back-
but we lack the incentives to change our grounds and who hold different political views.
behavior. We are all, regardless of where we sit It will take work to repair this problem, but build-
on the political spectrum, caught in a vortex of ing blocks exist. A good foundation would be a
intoxication. We have fooled ourselves into one-year mandatory national service program.

Jonathan Holloway, “To Unite a Divided America, Make People Work for It,” The New York Times, July 2, 2021. Copyright © 2021 by the New York
Times. All rights reserved. Used under license. https://nytimes.com/
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