KHANH LY Claims Analysis Charts Part One Work with a partner to select one claim from the text Rewrite that claim in your own words Then identify the reasons that Paine gives to support his claim Fina[.]
Part One: Work with a partner to select one claim from the text Rewrite that claim in your own words Then identify the reasons that Paine gives to support his claim Finally, identify the evidence that Paine gives to support his reasons Claim: America should separate from England and it should be independent (paragraph 25) ↓ Reason #1: America would have flourished as much and probably much more without the control of Europe ↓ Reason #2: If America doesn’t separate from England, it could be the end of a property nation ↓ Evidence: “We may as well assert that because a child has thrived upon milk, that it is never to have meat, or that the first twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent for the next twenty.” (paragraph 6) “We are already greater than the king wishes us to be, and will he not hereafter endeavour to make us less?” (paragraph 22) Reason #3: England exploited and cointrains the growth of America ↓ Evidence: “Thousands are already ruined by British barbarity; (thousands more will probably suffer the same fate.)” (paragraph 26) ↓ Evidence: ↓ ↓ Evidence: “America is only a secondary object in the system of British politics, England consults the good of this country, no farther than it answers her own purpose.” (paragraph 23) ↓ Evidence: “ the general temper of the colonies, towards a British government, will be like that of a youth, who is nearly out of his time; they will care very little about her” (paragraph 26) ↓ Evidence: “ and in that case we pay our money for nothing; and pray what is it that Britain can do, whose power will be wholly on paper, I make the sufferers case my own, and I protest, that were I driven from house and home, my property destroyed, and my circumstances ruined, that as a man, sensible of injuries, I could never relish the doctrine of reconciliation, or consider myself bound thereby [ .]” (paragraph 26) Part Two: With your partner, select one counterclaim from the text Rewrite that counterclaim in your own words Then identify the rebuttal that Paine gives against the counterclaim Finally, identify the evidence that Paine gives to support his rebuttal Counterclaim: America has flourished with the connection with Great Britain (paragraph 6) ↓ Rebuttal: America would have flourished and probably much more without European power ↓ Evidence: “Nothing can be more fallacious than this kind of argument.” (paragraph 6) ↓ Evidence: “We may as well assert that because a child has thrived upon milk, that it is never to have meat, , and will always have a market while eating is the custom of Europe.” (paragraph 6) ↓ Evidence: “But the most powerful of all arguments, is that nothing but independence, i.e., a continental form of government, can keep the peace of the continent and preserve it from civil wars.” (paragraph 25) ... counterclaim in your own words Then identify the rebuttal that Paine gives against the counterclaim Finally, identify the evidence that Paine gives to support his rebuttal Counterclaim: America has flourished... connection with Great Britain (paragraph 6) ↓ Rebuttal: America would have flourished and probably much more without European power ↓ Evidence: “Nothing can be more fallacious than this kind of