Paragraph and
Sentence Strategy:
Moving From Known (Old) Information to Unknown (New)
Information
Exercise 1 Review the following
passage. Identify the known information and the new
information in each sentence by underlining both types
of information and tying them together with an arrow.
The Puritans left England in a time of religious
persecution and fled to a country they believed would
offer the freedom to worship as they liked. The irony in
this situation is that they denied others that same
liberty. William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation
offers insight into the struggles faced by the Pilgrims
while they tried to sustain a community based on Puritan
piety. Bradford shows the colony's demise through the
citizens' adherence to a moral and religious code.
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Copyright 2006 by the Academic Center and the University
of Houston-Victoria.
Created 2006 by Kelli Trungale.
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