Thursday, October 9, 2014
Source C and D
The test we took seemed relatively easy to me. The lack of any matching, or multiple choice section greatly changed my opinion on the difficulty of the test. The fact that the whole test was writing perturbed me but also sort of relieved me of the stress received from multiple choice questions. I remember replying to one of the questions saying that the two men writing in source C and D were deliberately bashing the white people who upheld the rights of the Deceleration of Independence. They both had different approaches to the matter. David Walker called told the men that they were not simply following what they wrote and that they needed to therefore justify their claims of liberty. The other author declared that the document was more suggestive of the apparent matter that white people obviously viewed slaves as property and not people. I think David Walker was still under the impression that if he wrote this letter and people read it; they would immediately assume that there was in fact something done very wrong in the United States of America. Source D was more correct in pointing out that any American would pick up this document, read it, and then laugh because they see a slave claiming to be an actual human being and not just a piece of property that is sold and bartered.
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Due to the fact that the test lacked "memorization" questions was a good or bad thing because of what we are learning in class? Also given that this test did not have these questions, was it necessary to study? If so, how?
ReplyDeleteI will say that Source D was quite...disturbing. I was especially perturbed (to use your word) by the part where it suggested that the founding fathers were incapable of using language they didn't follow themselves. I don't hate on multiple choice tests, but having writing did manage to provide a sense of variety.
ReplyDeleteHow do you personally feel on the subject of sources C and D
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