📝 Essay Notes

November 6, 2022

Thesis Statement 📑

  • Defensible
  • To the point
  • Example: Sepulveda was in favor of the Spanish, while De Las Casa was in favor of the Natives, — pointing out the bad that Spanish did.

Primary Source Analysis 🧐

  • Context? (time period)
  • Potential author bias
  • Connect writing to the period context
  • Connections to larger historical themes
  • Content (what’s in the source)