Major Plans of Constitutional Convention Summary Assignment
I found this assignment very insightful. Though I did take history in high school, I felt like I only really started to understand it while taking this class. Within completing this assignment, I feel very educated on this topic and differences between the Virginia Plan, the New Jersey Plan, and the Connecticut Compromise. The problems that rose from the Articles of Confederation were somehow resolved in the Connecticut Compromise, also known as the Great Compromise. The Virginia Plan was favored by the larger states while the New Jersey Plan was favored by the smaller states. The Great Compromise took a little part from both the Virginia and New Jersey Plan and combined it, making both the larger and smaller states content. I felt like this class gave me better writing skills, including making summaries. I used to be very bad at summarizing things within one page because I'm a very straightforward person. I always thought summaries were supposed to be only one paragraph long so I struggled writing one or more pages for summaries. With all the summaries we did in this class, including this one about the major plans, I feel a lot more confident in my writing skills. Within writing skills also comes analysis. I feel like my analyzing skills got a lot better than before I started the semester, though I know I still have some improving to do. I also felt weird that we had to use Chicago citation because I've only ever used MLA or APA. After this semester, I feel like that's one thing I'll at least be familiar with just in case it shows up in my next online class after this semester ends. All in all, this was probably one of my favorite assignments to do in this class.