Respond to the questions below using complete sentences and evidence from the text. After you write your post, be sure to respond to two other student postings using "Accountable Talk."
1. Reread the description of bats on page 8. Write down one fact and opinion from this page. Also, tell how you know your statements are facts or opinions. Be sure to use quotations when citing directly from the book.
Opinion some people think bats are scary animals. Fact tropical bats eat insects.
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Dakota
12/9/2014 03:15:14 am
How you can tell fact from opinion is you can prove a fact right or wrong. and you can not prove opinion right or wrong. :)
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Isabella CI4
12/11/2014 02:14:34 am
Yes....... but the way you worded it, did not make sense to me
Etta
12/9/2014 03:16:50 am
You need a colon in the words opinion and fact.
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Sophia ci4
12/11/2014 02:12:39 am
Okay Dakota,I see what your saying,but can you say what page you found it on and some more details?
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Isabella CI4
12/11/2014 02:18:09 am
Sophia, I think you are right because he needs to take info from the text and get details from the text
Etta
12/9/2014 03:08:34 am
One fact I found was on page 8, it states, "Bats are animals that migrate.''
One opinion I found on page 8 says, "Some people think bats are scary animals. Others think bats are wonderful.''
Question 2: How do you know if a statement is a fact or an opinion?
Answer: A fact is something that is true. An opinion is something that is false or cannot be proven true.
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Isabella CI4
12/10/2014 02:32:57 am
Hi Etta it says that "Bats also migrate" you did not had the real words from the book
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Isabella CI4
12/11/2014 02:10:09 am
As I was saying you could say that but you wouldn't put quotation marks and had should be have
Theo
12/11/2014 03:26:47 am
Hi Etta,
I agree with you that bats are animals that migrate.I like how you had
on page 8.
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Danielw4
12/9/2014 03:09:07 am
On page eight a fact is "Bats are mammals that can fly". an opinion on page eight is "people think bats are scary animals".
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Graham W-4
12/9/2014 03:12:54 am
Daniel I wish you would capitalize your proper nouns.
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Etta
12/9/2014 03:14:50 am
Hi Daniel,
I noticed that some students have spelling or grammar mistakes. For example, The a in the word an needs to be capitalized. Also, we put the periods inside the quotation marks.
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Danielw4
12/9/2014 03:19:10 am
How I can tell my fact is a fact is because you cant disagree with it, and it can be proven true or false.How i tell my opinion is a opinion is people can disagree with me.
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Graham W-4
12/9/2014 03:21:14 am
Dear daniel You have to capitalize Your I's.
Graham W-4
12/9/2014 03:09:28 am
Fact, Bats are mammals that can fly.
Opinion,Some people think bats are scary animals.
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Graham W-4
12/9/2014 03:19:21 am
Oops! I forgot the second question. A fact is something that can be proven true or false. An opinion is a thought or belief.
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Mirra Ci-4
12/10/2014 02:24:09 am
1. Fact Opinion
"Bats also migrate." "Some people think bats are scary."
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Isabella CI4
12/11/2014 02:21:53 am
Hi Mirra I agree with you because it says that in the text. Good Answer!!! :)
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Mirra Ci-4
12/11/2014 02:22:55 am
I meant. The fact is"Bats also migrate." The opinion is "Some people think bats are scary."
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Isabella Ci4
12/10/2014 02:28:10 am
"Some people think that bats are scary animals"(opinion). Bats also migrate(fact).Bats are cool because they sleep upside down. I know that is true, because I went to mammoth cave in Kentucky(my opinion). What are some facts and opinions that you know of? :)
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Mirra CI-4
12/11/2014 02:13:13 am
I agree with you, Isabella because your fact can be proved.
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JESSE CI4 #REPLY
12/11/2014 02:14:17 am
I agree but can you talk more
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JESSE CI4
12/10/2014 02:32:15 am
Bats are mammals that can fly and hang from the top of a cave and bats are also midnight hunters' that means they go out at night and hunt.Bats have fur like caribou and baby bats drink mom milk not very long but bats have web like skin on their wings for good gliding.
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Joseph
12/10/2014 02:33:39 am
1."Bats are mammals that can fly" "Some people think that bats are scary,but some think they are wonderful"
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Graham W-4
12/10/2014 03:18:44 am
Hi joseph when things are from the book you have to put quotation marks around the sentence. [ " " ]
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Jesse Ci4
12/11/2014 02:10:01 am
I agree with you joe but can you tell more about way they like bats
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PARKER CI-4
12/11/2014 02:10:39 am
I agree with Joseph but on the other hand you could have included more specific details. But I think you did pretty good.
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Mirra Ci-4
12/11/2014 02:16:46 am
Joseph, can you tell us which ones which.
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Isabella CI4
12/11/2014 02:24:34 am
Yes but, it does not say that some people think it is wonderful but you could add that but not in quotations
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Sophia ci4
12/10/2014 02:33:54 am
As I saw on page 8 it says a fact about bats is "Bats have hands and feet. Their hands and fingers are very big compaired to their small bodies." Another fact is on page 9 it says "One bat can catch 600 mosquetoes in an hour." A opoinion is that pepole think that bats are scary.
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PARKER CI-4
12/11/2014 02:13:18 am
I agree with you,Sophia but I think that you could have added a little bit more details. Otherwise you did a great job!
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Sophia ci4
12/11/2014 02:20:18 am
Thanks for noticing Parker I'm going to write something about the opinions.With allot of details :)
Theo
12/10/2014 03:19:03 am
An opinion I found is that some people think bats are scary and others
think bats are cool.A fact I found is that bats hands are large compared
to their bodies.They also have web like skin between their fingers making wings
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Sam
12/11/2014 03:19:36 am
A fact about bats is that they eat about 600 bugs an hour so that's about 100 bugs every 10 minutes! An opinion is that they like to hang upside down.
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Sam :)
12/11/2014 03:28:23 am
I can tell a fact from an opinion because an opinion has an adjective and a fact can be proven true.