Consider the performance task for this nine weeks: Introduction to Performance Task taken from textbook
A thesis appears in the introductory paragraph. We will be writing the introduction at
the end of the 9 weeks (seems counter-intuitive, but there is a method to my
madness).
"If you had written your introduction, what would your thesis be? Before you write this,
consider a thesis that now matches the content from Plymouth Plantation and
"Blaxicans." (25 points)
*Write your first body paragraph (100 points) using textual support from "Blaxicans" to
support your thesis. Every detail that you include must support the performance task.
Remember to cite where you got your information from.
For example: Words words words words words words words (Rodriguez Par. 4). Words
words words words words words (Rodriguez Par. 8). DO NOT COPY ANYTHING
WORD FOR WORD! I do not want you to use quotes, so everything you write must
be paraphrased.

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion