For the past couple of days in History class, we've been learning about representation at the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Yesterday, my group took notes on William Paterson, James Wilson, and George Mason's opinions on a bicameral Congress. Today, after our quiz on the Preamble, the groups from yesterday got switched into new groups with one or two people from each of yesterday's groups. From there, we shared our notes from yesterday so everyone would have the same information. The other two topics were whether election should be done by the people or by state legislatures and whether states should have proportional or equal representation in Congress. After that (and lunch!), we took notes on the Connecticut Compromise. I think it's strange that slaves weren't allowed to vote and yet they counted as 3/5 of a person as far as representation.
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