1. Include a shortened version of your answer to the question in your first paragraph (this is a ‘thesis’)
2. Summarize and choose 3 selective quotes or paraphrased examples that help prove your answer
1. AT LEAST ONE should come from the primary source (you’ll only get one from it anyway)
3. Use each quote/paraphrased example in a body paragraph each
4. Conclude by re-stating your argument and how the author proved it with his examples
Some pointers regarding James Hart Merrell’s “The Indians’ New World”
1. Catawba peoples – A Siouan-speaking refugee nation living on the border of North and South Carolina
2. Piedmont – a plateau region in central Virginia, North and South Carolina
3. Yamasee – A Muskogean-speaking confederation of Native Americans from Florida/Georgia
4. Thesis is at the end of the third paragraph:
1. “If the Atlantic was not a barrier between one world and another, if what happened to people was more a matter of subtle cultural processes than mere physical displacements, perhaps we should set aside the maps and think instead of a “world” as the physical and cultural milieu demanding basic changes in ways of life. Considered in these terms, the experience of natives was more closely akin to that of immigrants and slaves, and the idea of an encounter between worlds can—indeed, must—include the aboriginal inhabitants of America.” (Merrell, 16)
5. Outline for article is in the fourth paragraph:
1. “For American Indians a new order arrived in three distinct yet overlapping stages :
1. alien microbes killed vast numbers of natives, sometimes before the victims had seen a white or black face.
2. Next came traders who exchanged European technology for Indian products and brought natives into the developing world market.
3. In time traders gave way to settlers eager to develop the land according to their own lights.” (Merrel l, 16-17)
6. Conclusion re-iterates thesis in second-to-last paragraph:
1. “natives throughout North America had their world stolen and another put in its place.
1. no Indians escaped the explosive mixture of deadly bacteria, material riches, and alien peoples that was the invasion of America.” (Merrell, 24)
Do not include any other information besides the one on the botton. Thanks you