A brainstorming chart that was used to write this narrative essay would have included the phrase “the years of the Great Depression were terrible times for most people” as

The phrase makes a broad claim about the Great Depression and establishes the essay’s central idea. That is the role of a thesis statement, which guides the rest of the essay. A supporting detail would give a specific fact or example, while a topic sentence would introduce one particular paragraph.

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