Brainstorm ideas for your persuasive essay. Read the writing prompt again before you begin. Write a five-paragraph essay based on this information:

Situation: Many parents of 6th-graders feel left out of their children’s education. Technology such as web cameras and the Internet could help parents feel more involved.

Directions: Determine your opinion about having web cameras in each classroom. How do you feel about parents going online at any time to see their child in class?

Prompt: Write an essay to convince your principal to agree with your point of view.

Write your answer in the box. Then copy and paste it to the Notebook tool () to refer to later.

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. sugar is a taste we all want, a taste we all crave. people throughout the planet everywhere have been willing to do anything, anything at all, to get that touch of sweetness. we even know exactly how thrilling it was to taste sugar for the first time. when the lewis and clark expedition met up with the shoshone, who had little previous contact with old world products, sacagawea gave a tiny piece of sugar to a chief. he loved it, saying it was "the best thing he had ever tasted." sugar created a hunger, a need, which swept from one corner of the world to another, bringing the most terrible misery and destruction, but then, too, the most inspiring ideas of liberty. sugar changed the world. we begin that story with a man who could never know enough. how does the conclusion of the prologue support the authors’ purpose? select two options. it introduces the topic that will be addressed next. it provides information about the authors. it states why the topic is relevant to readers. it cites sources the authors used in the text. it explains how the authors came to study the subject.