Odysseus Paper

"The conditions might have been bad enough for the men to want to revolt, but since the conditions weren’t Odysseus’s fault, they couldn’t blame them on him.  One of the bad conditions was when Odysseus and his men went to Circe’s island. When they got there, the men listened to Circe and “she struck her wand, drove them into her pigsties, all of them  bristling into swine” (page 237, lines 262-263). After they turned into pigs, they were really upset because they thought that they would never become men again, and had to stay pigs forever."

I am proud of this section in my essay, because I spent a lot of time on it, went to office hours to revise it, and felt good about my evidence.
My entire paper can be found here.

The planning process was a little difficult, but also easy because I knew what evidence I was going to use and how the set up of my paper was going to be. The hard part was to do the source citations and the analysis. When we would do group planning and work in class, it helped me a lot with finding the key evidence pieces, and I got a lot of good feedback to help me make progress with my paper. When I went to office hours with my english teacher, Ms. Press, it helped me a lot with revising my paper and fixing all the errors I had in my paper. I think that having other people read your work helps it become a lot better because you get good feedback and advice on how to fix errors and mistakes on it. I think what helped me improve most was when people put comments on my paper in google drive. It showed me specific parts I should fix in my paper and made it better.
For my humanities major assessment, I will keep on showing people my outline so that I will get feedback and improve it to make it a really good paper. For my in-class humanities final, the parts I will change are to work on my analysis so that it will be clear and strong. I want to make this change because it will help my paper look better, and I think it would help the reader understand my paper even more.

How Do Historians Read Historical Documents?

"Simon Bolivar 'The Liberator' from fotopedia.com by dbking.

Historians read historical documents by finding out what kind of source it is, thinking about the purpose of reading it is, making predictions, and taking note of things that happen throughout the document. Ways to take note of things are making bullets, writing short summaries each few sections of a document, and underlining or highlighting important ideas.

How Do Historians Write History?
Historians write history by communicating to other historians about the topic they want to write about. They can also study sources, and write about that topic on what they think is most accurate within those sources in their own words.

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