1) Making sure your thesis (in Bold like last time) is highly interpretive and arguable (a statement that needs to be proven)
2) Using topic sentences to introduce each set of evidence, in italics. A topic sentence is a mini-thesis that your evidence supports, and each must support the entire thesis.
3) Using four primary sources from the Primary Sources Boards, in pairs.
4) Broadening your focus to include multiple eras (consider each week as one era
Please post a highly interpretive thesis about what we’ve been studying recently, followed by an outline to set up two short paragraphs, each containing a topic sentence that supports the entire thesis, and two primary sources, each with an explanation of how it supports the topic of that paragraph. All sources must be from a Primary Sources Boards (you may add any fully cited sources to any Board at any time
TOPICS THAT YOU CAN USE (Colonizing Europe, Pre Columbia, Early colonies Spanish French and English ,imperial crisis, the revolution and constitution, and the new republic political and territorial expansion)