This template will help you write about your perspective on the issue you chose.

Choose one issue from the lesson to consider:

• increasing spending on programs for those in need
• building new offshore drilling rigs
• replacing a strip mall with a superstore
• increasing the minimum driving age

My chosen issue: ____________________________________________________

Paragraph 1Explain your perspective on the issue you chose. Write in complete sentences.

Paragraph 2Describe a different perspective on this issue, one that differs from your own. give complete sentences.