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moragmacpherson) wrote2010-05-17 03:47 pm
moragmacpherson) wrote2010-05-17 03:47 pm
The mind boggles...
So I realize that the majority of my f-list is, in fact, European, but I know at least one of you is in an American studies program at university, so I challenge you: how many levels does this sentence fail on?
"In 1763 Thomas Jefferson began the constitutional period by starting to write a new constitution which he called the declaration of independence."
"In 1763 Thomas Jefferson began the constitutional period by starting to write a new constitution which he called the declaration of independence."
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I'm not sure where the student got constitutional period from either - when she came to my review session, I did mention dividing the comprehensive question up into four time periods in order to organize the essay: 1607-1763, 1763-1800, 1800-1850, and 1850-1865. The phrase I used to describe the second period was, "This covers the build-up to the Revolution, the Revolutionary War, the development of the Constitution, and the first few presidential administrations under the Constitution." Somehow this student's brain translated that into 'constitutional period'. That's the best I can come up with.