Appendix A Midterm Exam

• Access the Week Four Electronic Reserve Readings located under the materials section of your student website.

• Read this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings.

• Write a paragraph of approximately 100 words for each section listed below.

1. Using the critical thinking skills you have gained so far and referring to the materials provided for this assignment, identify two possible strategies that Thomas Hutchinson or Samuel Adams likely used to develop and improve their thinking as those historical events unfolded prior to taking a stand and acting according to their beliefs.

I feel they used a lot of strategies to overcome the things in their lives. When it comes to the American people and our way of living, there are some strategies that help out and some that do not. I believe Thomas Hutchinson an Samuel Adams might have gotten together; use some strategies in some form of life that was for the good of others. I also believe there were some people that they made poor as well. You sometimes have some thing that you will try and it did not work for you, but the same strategies worked for someone else. Everybody has their own way of doing things; no two people are going to do the same thing the same way. We each have a mine or our own.

2. Explain the importance of building a foundation for critical and creative thinking when evaluating historical events such as the Boston Tea Party.

The importance of building a foundation for critical and creative thinking is for what we do in life. Having builded a foundation for the things in our life makes our life a little easier to live. In the Boston Tea Party the foundation seem to be trying to keep the peace and to have everyone come together. My foundations are my family and friends, with out them my life would not be the same.

I do not think it would have any meaning, to go on. Foundations is what make things work in everything that we do, like being a child and be...