1. ESSAY: Event that Caused the War Alternate: Were the Colonist’s Justified in War?

2. Pick which essay you will do Use pdf file and internet for additional data Organize ideas to support your view Use ‘lead-in’ for each fact 3 facts needed minimum Provide commentary for each fact Create your own title for your essay

3. IBC Format Intro, Body, Conclusion Use an opener (hook) Intro provides background data and your thesis (one sentence for thesis) Use “I” only when expressing your opinion. Do not refer to yourself or what you are ‘doing’

4. BODY Minimum 2 paragraph body Body paragraph should be a minimum of 6 sentences Use topic sentence, lead in, fact you are using, commentary

5. CONCLUSION Restate thesis State why you think this proves what you are saying closing

6. Lead-ins A ‘lead-in’ is a statement of information that sets up you being able to use a quote, or introduce a fact. It is often background information to the topic/quote. The kind of data found in a lead in are facts of the who, what, when, where, why, how of the thing you are referring to.

7. Lead in example: British colonists were eager to settle in the new land that had been won and awarded to Britain after the Treaty of Paris in 1763. King George III decided to make the area off limits to colonists that wanted to settle east of the Appalachian Mountains. The Proclamation of 1763 angered colonists who wanted to settle in the Ohio River Valley. The colonists felt it unfair since they had just fought in the French and Indian War that brought that land to Britain.