Early Jamestown: Why Did So Many Colonists Die?



DBQ Online Warning: You may not post outside of your school's password protected site.Early Jamestown: Why Did So Many Colonists Die?Guided EssayI. INTRODUCTIONA. GrabberAlso known as a hook.Question or statement that catches your reader's attention about the topic.B. Background informationProvide a couple sentences about Jamestown from background essay. Use suggestions above.C. Restatement of the questionPeople want to know why many of the colonists were dying in Jamestown.D. Definition of “early”Tell what they mean by early Jamestown. People were dying in large amounts in the early years of Jamestown when it was first started.E. Thesis and Road Map:Use your chicken foot and toes to form a complete sentence or use the suggestion above.II. BODY PARAGRAPH #1A. Baby Thesis:First toe from your chicken footThe first reason Jamestown colonists died was diseases.B. Evidence:Find your evidence from the documents that you included in your bucketing step.Doc A: human waste ended up sitting in the river and not moving away. Doc C: no druggistsC. Argument:Explain your evidencePeople were drinking the water. With waste in it, it was contaminated and would cause people to get sick.People were getting sick from drinking contaminated water and they had no one to make medicine. Without medicine, there was no treatment for their illnesses, which led them to death.III. BODY PARAGRAPH #2A. Baby Thesis:B. Evidence:C. Argument:IV. BODY PARAGRAPH #3A. Baby Thesis:B. Evidence:C. Argument:V. CONCLUSIONA. Restate your thesisRephrasing of chicken foot thesis from beginning.B. Summarize key idea of your argumentC. Explain ................
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