Review the writing prompt for your argumentative essay: 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, and uses your best spelling, capitalization, grammar, and punctuation skills.