ESSAY: WRITING A DESCRIPTIVE STORY In this unit, you have been studying language. Specifically, you have learned about the origin, purpose, and meaning of language.

Objective:

Write a three-paragraph descriptive story about your experience with language.
Select one of the following topics:

First experiences in saying words
The most exciting thing you ever heard
Characteristics of a good listener
When you are told "No"
Thoughts, words, and actions
A topic or experience with language of your choice

Write a descriptive story based on the topic that you chose. Your story should be at least three paragraphs and 150 words in length. Remember that a paragraph is about one topic. It has an introductory sentence, usually three or more detail sentences, and a summary sentence. Each new paragraph needs to be indented.

Check your report before you submit it. Did you:

Include your heading at the top of your report? This includes your name, the teacher’s name, the subject, the date, and a centered title.
Include three separate paragraphs in your story?
Check your answer for spelling and grammar?.

In just over one hundred years, between 1701 and 1810, 252,500 enslaved africans were brought to barbados—an island that occupies only 166 square miles (making it, today, one of the smallest countries in the world). the english then set out to conquer more sugar islands, starting with jamaica, which they took from spain in 1655. in the same period that the 252,500 africans were brought to barbados, 662,400 africans were taken to jamaica. thus, sugar drove more than 900,000 people into slavery, across the atlantic, to barbados and jamaica—and these were just two of the sugar islands. the english were eagerly filling antigua, nevis, saint kitts, and montserrat with slaves and sugar mills. they took over much of dutch guiana for the same reason. seeing the fortunes being made in sugar, the french started their own scramble to turn the half of the island of hispaniola that they controlled (which is now haiti), as well as martinique, guadeloupe, and french guiana (along the south american coast near dutch guiana), into their own sugar colonies, which were filled with hundreds of thousands more african slaves. by 1753, british ships were taking average of 34,250 slaves from africa every year, and by 1768, that number had reached 53,100. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how do the authors use historical evidence to support their claim? x(a) they use secondary sources to show how french and english monarchs were indifferent to enslaved people. x(b)they use secondary sources to show that enslaved people often fought for their freedom after arriving in the caribbean. the answer is: (c)they use facts from primary sources to show how countries increased the number of enslaved people to produce more sugar. x(d)they use primary source interviews to show that countries could make more money in trading sugar without using enslaved people.