Benjamin Banneker: Science in Adversity by Mustakimur R. https://padlet.com/m33017/5p7zwg0hhl1h Made by Daniel and Mustakimur en-us 2018-04-04 18:50:55 UTC 2025-11-14 11:57:33 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Bigthunderstorm.png 1)What does the story of Molly and Banneker tell us about the time in which they lived, and how the inequalities of the period affected collective learning? d32160 https://padlet.com/m33017/5p7zwg0hhl1h/wish/248642330 The story of Molly and Banneker tells us is that time, slaves were being purchase by farmers . In fact, slaves were in the lower clansman, or had less rights, than farmers. The inequalities of the period affected collective learning by slaves containing limited access to share information with humanity. ]]> 2018-04-04 18:58:20 UTC https://padlet.com/m33017/5p7zwg0hhl1h/wish/248642330 4)How did Banneker’s circumstances make it difficult for him to contribute to the pool of human knowledge? m33017 https://padlet.com/m33017/5p7zwg0hhl1h/wish/248988520 Banneker was an african american man so he wasn't accepted into society and he was also busy with his farm. If Banneker been born a century later, he might have had an opportunity to attend school, even a university, and contribute to mathematics and scientific 
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]]> 2018-04-05 17:56:13 UTC https://padlet.com/m33017/5p7zwg0hhl1h/wish/248988520 2)What was Banneker’s greatest contribution to science? d32160 https://padlet.com/m33017/5p7zwg0hhl1h/wish/248994306 Banneker's greatest contribution to science was that he studied times of the tides, sunset, and the sunrise. In addition, he studied the phases of the Moon, the occurrence of the eclipse, and when pest and bad weathers would likely to occur. He published all his studies in an almanac. ]]> 2018-04-05 18:08:22 UTC https://padlet.com/m33017/5p7zwg0hhl1h/wish/248994306 5) What were some of the unique ways in which Banneker went about acquiring knowledge and doing studies? m33017 https://padlet.com/m33017/5p7zwg0hhl1h/wish/248997887 He was a giftted child to born with so it was easier for him to learn faster than his peers.  A Quaker farmer, named Peter Heinrich, who was starting up a school in the area helped Banneker to go to school. The school loaned many books to Benjamin. From this point forward till the end of his life, 
Benjamin was largely self-taught
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]]> 2018-04-05 18:16:54 UTC https://padlet.com/m33017/5p7zwg0hhl1h/wish/248997887 3)Explain Banneker’s exchange of letters with Thomas Jefferson. What arguments did Banneker use to try to convince Jefferson he was wrong? d32160 https://padlet.com/m33017/5p7zwg0hhl1h/wish/248998089 In Banneker's letter, he claimed that people like him should not be abused by people with a different of color where they are all family. In addition, he utilizes his almanac to showcase proof that people with different color of skin contains similar minds as others. In the other side, Jefferson argued that people like Banneker were part of criminal acts he should too be find as guilty over time.]]> 2018-04-05 18:17:26 UTC https://padlet.com/m33017/5p7zwg0hhl1h/wish/248998089 Conceptual Thinking: Can you think of other cultures that are currently in the state that colonial America was in during the time of Benjamin Banneker, for example, through apartheid or gender discrimination? m33017 https://padlet.com/m33017/5p7zwg0hhl1h/wish/249001489 Back in the days their were gender discrimination but due to the civil war women and blacks fought for their rights. The life of women's were still even to this they still face some problems for example the amount of money a woman earn from thier jobs is somtimes lower than a man doing that same job.]]> 2018-04-05 18:25:03 UTC https://padlet.com/m33017/5p7zwg0hhl1h/wish/249001489