📝 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)