This workshops number 5
Quiz 3
Topic Sentence Workshop
For today’s assignment, your group will need to create three topic sentences based on the following
thesis statement. Then, identify which documents from chapter two of Constructing the American
Past (see Blackboard) could be used to support your topic sentences.
THESIS: The English faced frightening challenges during the first century of North American
colonization as a result of poor health, encounters with Native Americans, and disputes within
their own settlements.
Topic Sentence (body paragraph 1):
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Topic Sentence (body paragraph 2):
Document(s):
Topic Sentence (body paragraph 3):
Document(s):
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The English faced frightening challenges during the first century of North American colonization as a result of poor health. Document 2 (‘From a Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia’ by Thomas Harriot) reports that within a few days after their (the Englishmen) departure from Wingandacoa (the present-day Virginia),
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