Prompt: How confident do you feel about your ability to identify claims in a text? What was the easiest part of today's activity, and what did you find challenging? Explain how today's lesson helped you better understand the difference between a claim and other statements an author might make.

 I feel pretty confident identifying claims in a text. The easiest part was finding the main point, but the hardest part was telling claims apart from facts. Today’s lesson helped me understand that a claim is something an author argues or believes, while other statements may just give information. I was absent so I cannot do the reflection or summary.