My object is the Wafer Iron sketch number 2 this sketch is showing how the Wafer Iron might be assembled and how it might be used
1. Who made this object and where was it manufactured?
2. What do the symbols on it mean and why are they there?
3. Would women or servants use this object?
4. How was this object made?
5. What were Wafers?
First of all, your questions do an excellent job at covering the context, content, and significance of the wafer iron (to speak in Doc ID terms). I’m going to respond to each question one by one so I don’t miss anything. Overall, I feel that each question is well designed to take you in a different direction, and after having answered all of them you’ll have a broad basis of information on not only the wafer iron, but its time period as well. Basically, they do exactly what research questions should do.
1) This question is a little specific. However, it’s obviously important to know this information. You might want to take this one step further and think even more about where it came from… and where it ended up. What does this show about trade routes? If it was made in the same country it was used in, where did the materials come from?
2) This is a great question, and I have no edits for it. One approach to this, which you’ve probably already thought of, is to see if the symbols are made of a different material than the rest. Do they mean it was more for show than for use? I looked at the iron on the object list but can’t really see the symbols because the picture is so small, so I’m not of much help here.
3) Another good question. How did you narrow it down to slaves and women? What does that say about the society? Of what social/economic class were the households the wafer iron was used in? If slaves, you could research how many they had, where they got them from, and how they were treated. If women, you could go into the roles of women in the society. Were they treated only as mothers and housewives? Were they literate? In times of war, did they gain more independence while the men were away (allowed to run the household accounts and generally act as the husband/father usually did)?
4) This ties in to what I said for your first question. What was it made of? Where did the materials come from? What does this say about trade routes? You could probably merge these.
5) Crucial to know. Once you find out, you might want to think about why they were necessary (or unnecessary) and what equivalents they had in other cultures.
So, the one thing I would say is a couple of them seem slightly too specific, and you might want to broaden them so that you have enough room to not only learn about the object but about the society it was used in through the object. All in all, your questions were done and you clearly put a lot of thought into them.
The last sentence is supposed to read well done*, not done. Also I’m really sorry; I didn’t know it was that long until it posted. Just goes to show your questions made me think a lot. Again, really good job.
My object is the Wafer Iron sketch number 2 this sketch is showing how the Wafer Iron might be assembled and how it might be used
1. Who made this object and where was it manufactured?
2. What do the symbols on it mean and why are they there?
3. Would women or servants use this object?
4. How was this object made?
5. What were Wafers?
Hey Pablo,
First of all, your questions do an excellent job at covering the context, content, and significance of the wafer iron (to speak in Doc ID terms). I’m going to respond to each question one by one so I don’t miss anything. Overall, I feel that each question is well designed to take you in a different direction, and after having answered all of them you’ll have a broad basis of information on not only the wafer iron, but its time period as well. Basically, they do exactly what research questions should do.
1) This question is a little specific. However, it’s obviously important to know this information. You might want to take this one step further and think even more about where it came from… and where it ended up. What does this show about trade routes? If it was made in the same country it was used in, where did the materials come from?
2) This is a great question, and I have no edits for it. One approach to this, which you’ve probably already thought of, is to see if the symbols are made of a different material than the rest. Do they mean it was more for show than for use? I looked at the iron on the object list but can’t really see the symbols because the picture is so small, so I’m not of much help here.
3) Another good question. How did you narrow it down to slaves and women? What does that say about the society? Of what social/economic class were the households the wafer iron was used in? If slaves, you could research how many they had, where they got them from, and how they were treated. If women, you could go into the roles of women in the society. Were they treated only as mothers and housewives? Were they literate? In times of war, did they gain more independence while the men were away (allowed to run the household accounts and generally act as the husband/father usually did)?
4) This ties in to what I said for your first question. What was it made of? Where did the materials come from? What does this say about trade routes? You could probably merge these.
5) Crucial to know. Once you find out, you might want to think about why they were necessary (or unnecessary) and what equivalents they had in other cultures.
So, the one thing I would say is a couple of them seem slightly too specific, and you might want to broaden them so that you have enough room to not only learn about the object but about the society it was used in through the object. All in all, your questions were done and you clearly put a lot of thought into them.
The last sentence is supposed to read well done*, not done. Also I’m really sorry; I didn’t know it was that long until it posted. Just goes to show your questions made me think a lot. Again, really good job.