One week left!
Time to practice your LEQ skills for the next couple of days. Do not be afraid to also review content. Both are critical for obvious reasons!
Prompt: Choose TWO of the following and analyze their impact on colonial North American development between 1620 and 1776.
- Puritanism
- The Enlightenment
- The First Great Awakening
Guide
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READ THE PROMPT CAREFULLY!
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Thesis. Your thesis should clearly identify similarities versus differences, preferably in two separate sentences or two separate clauses within a sentence divided by a clear “however” or “but” etc. You should try for three similarities and three differences, preferably related. The differences ideally qualify the similarities.
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Body Paragraphs. Each body paragraph should start by arguing a similarity qualified by a difference. Follow with an explanation of what LED TO/CAUSED the similarity or the difference. Finish with three or more supporting details (facts, vocab words) and explain how they support the topic.
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Do not forget to conclude your essay. This is a good place to try to restate your thesis to ensure that you get the point in at least one of the two possible places.
Suggested Overall Composition
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Each Body Paragraph’s Composition
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Thesis
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Body Paragraph 1- Similarity
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Body Paragraph 2- Difference
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Body Paragraph 3- Sim or Diff
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Conclusion
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Topic sentence arguing sims versus diffs for the aspect you are comparing in the paragraph
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Explanation of what LED TO/CAUSED the sims or diffs
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Evidence 1 (with explanation of how it supports topic sentence)
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Evidence 2 (with explanation of how it supports topic sentence)
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Evidence 3 (with explanation of how it supports topic sentence)
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When done, check out the scoring notes and grade yourself.