Establish what an openly partisan source is still good evidence for
Three steps, the way the exam actually works: work through the lab, write down your own observations, then answer a 8-point free response. What you recorded goes to the grader with your writing, so a conclusion that does not follow from your own evidence will cost you the point — exactly as it would with a real reader.
Predict before you look
- A source written to persuade is not thereby useless. Write one sentence naming something a propaganda pamphlet is reliable evidence for.
- Before reading, state what you expect The Communist Manifesto to identify as the engine of historical change.
Nothing to submit here — these are to think through, so the prediction below is an informed one rather than a guess.
Commit to an answer now. It is not graded and being wrong costs nothing — the point is to have something specific to reconcile against once you have the data.
Answer every prediction to unlock the lab. A sentence is enough.
Run the investigation
Predictions first
The procedure and the simulation unlock once you have committed above. Observing before predicting is how a wrong intuition survives a lab intact.
Record what you found
This is your reading of the source, not ours. The grader sees them, so your conclusions have to follow from what you actually recorded.
| Year the Manifesto was published | |
|---|---|
| Year of the English translation named in the header | |
| Year of the Declaration of the Rights of Man | |
| Years between the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Manifesto(Subtract the earlier year from the later one.) | years |
| The phrase naming the engine of history | |
| The two classes the excerpt names | |
| The purpose the lab names |
Answer the free response
Using the document you analyzed: (a) Quote the phrase naming the engine of history and name the two classes, then state what kind of claim this is — a description, a prediction, or both. (b) Using the purpose you recorded, explain why this document is weak evidence for the actual condition of European workers in 1848. (c) Explain what the same document IS strong evidence for, and name at least two things a historian can establish from it with confidence. (d) The excerpt is an 1888 English translation of an 1848 German text. Explain two distinct ways that gap could affect your use of the source, and state what you would check.
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