Read industrial society through a source that wants to overturn it
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 hostile to the system it describes is not thereby unreliable. State in one sentence what such a source is especially good evidence for.
- Before reading, list two social changes industrialization produced in Europe that you would expect a critic writing in 1848 to notice.
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 of publication | |
|---|---|
| The claim about the direction of social change, in a phrase | |
| Intended audience | |
| Purpose — analysis, mobilization, or both | |
| One industrial condition that supports its description | |
| One condition that complicates its description |
Answer the free response
Using the Manifesto excerpt: (a) State the claim it makes about how industrial society is changing, and quote the language that carries it. (b) Using your recorded audience and purpose, explain how writing to mobilize rather than to describe shapes what the document says. (c) Identify ONE specific feature of nineteenth-century industrial society that supports its description, and ONE that complicates it. (d) The excerpt ends "Working Men of All Countries, Unite!" Explain what that appeal reveals about the authors' understanding of industrial capitalism, and evaluate how well the following century bore it out.
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