PLEASE HELP FAST!!!!
The writer is considering adding the following sentence to the passage after sentence 2.
From personal experience, I know that, when I get fewer than eight hours of sleep due to extracurricular activities, I’m less likely to be energetic and more likely to depend on caffeine and energy drinks to stay alert.
Should the writer add this sentence after sentence 2?
A. Yes, because this personal observation supports the paragraph’s primary purpose of establishing pathos.
B. Yes, because this personal observation is firsthand evidence that adds relevancy to the secondhand evidence.
C. Yes, because this personal observation increases the sufficiency of the evidence in the passage.
D. No, because this personal observation is a detail that distracts from the writer’s argument.
E. No, because this personal observation lacks the accuracy and reliability required to be convincing.
PLEASE NOTE THAT C IS WRONG
The story is listed below:
1) If asked to list the most important health choices a person can make, most people would list eating healthy foods and exercising, but few people would include getting the recommended amount of sleep. (2) The American Academy of Sleep Medicine has found that teens who do not get 8 to 10 hours of sleep per night are more likely to be sedentary, to have obesity, to have depression, or to participate in high-risk behaviors like using alcohol, tobacco, or drugs. (3) As a society, we must make supporting healthy sleep behavior in teens a priority to ensure their well-being. (4) Adopting later high school and middle school start times, though disruptive to the status quo, is an essential part of society’s commitment to teen health and wellness.
(5) In teenagers, it is not just the quantity of sleep that matters; it also matters when that sleep occurs. (6) In the journal Sleep Medicine, Crowley, Acebo, and Carskadon report that “sleep/wake timing shifts later in young humans during the second decade of life.” (7) In other words, teens’ circadian rhythms predispose them to staying awake later at night and sleeping later in the morning. (8) It seems counterintuitive, then, that high schools and middle schools across the nation tend to start earlier than elementary schools. (9) In fact, a recent study found that over 90 percent of high schools begin before 8:30 in the morning.
(10) The Centers for Disease Control has found that the earlier school begins, the less sleep teens receive. (11) Unsurprisingly, teens overwhelmingly describe themselves as tired during the day, according to sleep experts Wolfson and Carskadon. (12) In the interest of greater alertness and focus—and therefore enhanced retention and ultimately academic achievement—educational institutions should embrace the biological needs of their students and adjust secondary start times accordingly.
