 Your scribes are going to receive a yellow sheet here and this is going to be our task. We are going to answer a few questions based on this text we've just read. And as a team, we're going to work together to make some claims about Thomas Payne and this text and back it up, of course, with evidence we find in the excerpt that you read. Who's our scribe? Ashley. And everybody's got one. So I'm going to give everybody else their own copy but as we look there are three questions that we're going to ask your team to answer. The first is, together decide based on what you've read, do we think Payne is most likely a patriot or a loyalist, all right? And then we're going to need to back that up, prove why you think that with evidence from this text. And then finally, question three, as a team, decide what do you think his purpose? What was the purpose of this text, of writing this pamphlet, Common Sense? All right, so we're going to take about 10 minutes right now as a team to come up with some really well thought out answers. Okay, let's go ahead and get started. We believe that Thomas Payne, the author of Common Sense is most likely a patriot or a loyalist. I think he was a loyalist. It says I have heard it assumed by some that as America have grown under her connection with Great Britain that the same connection is necessary towards her future happiness. But then it says nothing can be more false. Oh, that does make sense. So it could mean a patriot too. I was thinking he was a patriot. There is this kind of argument. So they're arguing it. Then he says we may as well assume that because a child has thrived upon milk that has never had meat, I answer that America would have grown as much and probably much more that no European power had anything to do with her. So he thinks that.