Analytic Blog Three

The last section of my chosen text discussed the monumental Protest Reformation and Counter- Reformation, which took place in Europe, specifically England during the 1500’s.

For this blog I focused on the following reading strategies: Visualization, Predicting, Evaluating, Connection, and Recall.

On page 121, the word indulgence made me picture a priest clothed in his best regale sitting on a throne and a peasant with tattered clothing giving what little money he had begging for forgiveness.

When I was reading the about the public posting of the 95 thesis, I began to predict that this action was going to cause a conflict. Another prediction that I made was when I read the word reformation I believed that this would lead to some kind of reform or a multitude of reforms.

In the first paragraph, on page 121, specifically lines seven thru ten. I evaluated the corruption that was taking place within the Catholic Church during the 1500’s.

The word inquisition on page 124, help me to make a connection to a museum that I had been to. The museum had display’s of various torture instruments that were used during the inquisition to persuade the individual to confess. Another connection that I made was the subheading The Reformation of Parliament, which talks about how the king and parliament legalized laws. It made me think about our own government and how the senate and the president work together to legalize laws. It reinforces the idea that events of the past are not much different from today.