Midterm Paper Response

I found this paper assignment to be one of the most challenging papers that I have ever been asked to write. The only thing that I found that I was good at was organizing the paper and the different eras that I was going to discuss. It was extremely hard to fit so much history (pretty much the entire history of Africans living in America) into one paper. It was hard for me to decide on what was important to make sure that I included and what details or information were not as important that I could kinda skip over. I also found it very hard to choose what specific events and people that I was going to included in my analysis of each era, because every event that occured helped to shape history in some way. I did find that outline that Professor Whaley made us very helpful in organizing my thoughts a little more. I also think that after completing this paper I have a better understanding of African American history than I did before and I think that it will be easier for me to remember some of this new information on quizzes and exams. So that aspect of the paper was rewarding as well as just finishing the paper in its entirety. I am not the best at conveying my thoughts especially when it involves interpreting and citing a lot of history so this paper was certainly a big challenge for me. However, hopefully, future papers that I may be assigned that are similar to this one will be a little easier for me to complete.

-Sarah Pergine