Section 11
“Brannan gave the packet to Katie’s kindergarten teacher, but thinks the teacher just saw it as an excuse for bad behavior. Last fall, she switched Katie to a different school, where she hopes more understanding will lead to less anxiety.”
This is an evaluative claim. The packet given to the teacher can be easily backed with a bit of research. The teacher decided to just blame it on bad behavior even with the packet.
“Katie is sorry—God, is she sorry, you can see it in her face and guilty shoulders, but she seems to feel like she can’t help it.”
This is an illustrative claim. They are illustrating her face and you can imagine the look on her face and the way her shoulders are.
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Counterintuitive Spring 2023 
“Brannan gave the packet to Katie’s kindergarten teacher, but thinks the teacher just saw it as an excuse for bad behavior. Last fall, she switched Katie to a different school, where she hopes more understanding will lead to less anxiety.”
This is an evaluative claim. The packet given to the teacher can be easily backed with a bit of research. The teacher decided to just blame it on bad behavior even with the packet.
—Yes, it’s Evaluative.
—First, it’s Attributive. The Author doesn’t take “credit” for any of the conclusions drawn in this little section. She attributes the insights and reasoning to Brannan.
—She shares Brannan’s Factual Claim that she handed over the packet without having verified that.
—She passes along Brannan’s Evaluative claim that the teacher ignored the packet and blamed Katie for bad behavior, as you posit.
—She offer the Causal Claim that the teacher’s attitude CAUSED Brannan to switch schools for Katie.
—She shares with readers Brannan’s Proposal/Predictive/Causal/Comparative Claim that teachers there will be MORE sympathetic and that their sympathy and understanding will RESULT in a LESS anxiety for Katie.
—The Author might agree with Brannan’s sentiment that teachers DON’T GET what life is like for her kid, but she lets Brannan make the claims and she lets readers decide, sort of. She stays in charge of what the readers know.
Graded.
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