Write an argumentative essay about whether or not it should be legal to own exotic animals as pets. Using your Argumentative Writing Planner and the knowledge you've gained from this lesson, type your introduction paragraph with a hook, general information, and claim. Your introduction should achieve the following: uses a statistic or fact to draw in the reader includes background knowledge for the reader addresses a counterclaim and then follows with your claim takes a clear position on the issue and includes a claim that is one sentence uses your best spelling, capitalization, grammar, and punctuation skills