2. Read the paragraph below excerpted from "The Aftermath." Find three examples of statements that could be considered facts and three examples of opinion and write them in
the table below. (10 points)
Watching helpless New Orleans suffering day by day left people everywhere stunned and
angry and in ever greater pain. These things happened in Haiti, they said, but not here.
"Baghdad under water" is how former Louisiana Senator John Breaux described his beloved
city, as state officials told him they feared the death toll could reach as high as 10,000,
spread across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. No matter what the final tally, the
treatment of the living, black and poor and old and sick, was a disgrace. The problem with
putting it all into numbers is that they stop speaking clearly once they get too big: an
estimated half a million refugees, a million people without power, 30.000 soldiers, up to
$100 billion in damage. "This is our tsunami," said Biloxi, Miss., Mayor A. J. Holloway. The
overstatement is forgivable, for at some point suffering becomes immeasurable, reduced to