Timed-Writing Exploration Preparation

Theses 1.Suffering, optimism, and faith are all connected in many ways. 2.It's human nature to be stubborn and hold on to one's ideas tightly, but it's also human nature to change. 3.Most of these people were confused Jews. 4.Some people, when oppressed, value pride over their lives, and might not take the easiest ways out of problems 5.Identity separates people and by being divided, it makes them into different groups who are together. 6.Identity is what starts all stories and ends all souls, it is what makes darkness expose in the brightest daylight. 7.One's identity may describe your past and future as well as your beliefs and experiences. 8.The role of identity is who they represent/are.

Practice Question 1 Alternate In a well-developed essay compare and/or contrast significant issues of colonial America to significant issues surrounding early independent America. In a well-developed essay compare and/or contrast significant issues of slavery in early America to significant issues surrounding Native-American relations in early America.

Introductions 1.Identify similarities that occurred between the events until you get to your thesis that identifies the most significant one that you will talk about. 2.Identify differences between the two events until you shift the focus with your thesis to a profound similarity or contrast. 3.Use a famous quote that relates the ideas surrounding the similarity you identified and elaborate on its historical significance until you shift to your thesis. 4.Establish the time period and the settings of each event until you shift to your thesis.

Conclusions 1. Touching Back on Important Points: Return to the main idea of the essay, as stated in the introduction. This isn’t a re-telling but rather a synthesis of what is most important from your arguments. 2. Focus on Greater Importance/Significance: What difference does it all make? Why should the reader care? 3. The Profound Final Statement: What can you end with that encapsulates the overall significance of your point that will leave the reader thinking “Wow!”?

Essay Body 1.Split discussion of evidence into 2 paragraphs. a)Discuss everything about how the 1 st subject (ex. Slavery) relates to the thesis in the 1 st paragraph. b)Discuss everything about how the 2 nd subject (ex. Native Americans) relates to the thesis in the 2 nd paragraph) 2.Compare each issue point by point/side by side. a)Each paragraph would likely be a new comparison with the topic of each paragraph being the comparison you are making and how it relates to the thesis.

Essay Body – Examples: Type 1 Thesis - both slaves and Native Americans were forced out of their homelands to further assist American expansion in territory and industry. Slavery was a brutal time period and a significant part of that brutality was the uprooting of slaves from their homeland through the grueling “middle passage” to a devastating new existence in American homes and fields. After colonizing America in the early 1600s, settlers soon realized a need for a labor source to increase agricultural production in the harsh conditions of the New World. The answer: trade. England had many goods to trade and new routes to Western Africa opened their markets to a population desperate for these material possessions. In order for African countries to engage in trade; however, they needed something to barter with and that came in the form of human capital from native slavery resulting from losers in the many ongoing tribal wars. While slavery was common in Africa at this time, conditions were much more humane than the violence experienced in the colonies.

Essay Body – Examples: Type 2 Thesis - both slaves and Native Americans were forced out of their homelands to further assist American expansion in territory and industry. Both slavery and Native American upheaval were brutal time periods. A significant part of that brutality was the uprooting of slaves from their homeland through the grueling “middle passage” to a devastating new existence in American homes and fields and the mass removal of hundreds of thousands of Native Americans from land they had called home for centuries. All this devastation caused by a need for labor and land in a bourgeoning new economic time. These two needs led to two of America’s darkest historical truths: trade in human capital and militarily causing the forced migration of an entire population. Both in the name of progress.

Practice Question 3 In a well-developed essay compare and/or contrast significant experiences in your own life to significant issues surrounding slavery in early America.

Practice Question 4 In a well-developed essay compare and/or contrast significant experiences in your own life to significant issues surrounding Native-American relations in early America.