Analyze the Declaration of Independence (July 4 1776) — its principles AND its contradictions — using the Founding Contradiction T-chart MG-13
Exercise Difficulty 4 ~5 min hist.g5.f.ex_27

Felix Holbrook Close Reading

MG-7 Interactive Physical / non-image

Federal Founding-Era Archive Card (FOUR-PAGE form used by every child for every primary-source document analyzed in the unit). PAGE 1 SOURCING: Title of source / Author or creator / Year created / Where created / Purpose (why was this made? for whom?) / Genre (TREATY / LAW / PAMPHLET / PROCLAMATION / POEM / NARRATIVE / ENGRAVING / NEWSPAPER / SERMON / MAP / LETTER / JOURNAL — circle one). PAGE 2 CONTEXTUALIZATION: What was happening in the Atlantic World when this was made? Who held power? Who was excluded? What other events took place near this date? PAGE 3 CORROBORATION: Find at least ONE other source about the same event or person. Do the two sources agree? Disagree? On what specifically? PAGE 4 CLOSE READING: Quote one important sentence from the source. What does it actually say? PLUS NMAI FIFTH MOVE: Whose voices are present in this source? Whose are absent? What land are we standing on as we read this? Style: high-contrast form-style layout; large-print version available; sentence-frame version available; audio-narration version available.

Prompt

Apply MG-7 page 4 CLOSE READING to Felix Holbrook's 1773 Petition. Why is this primary source important for the Founding Contradiction analysis? (3 sentences)

How it's presented
mode writing prompt audio ID audio.g5f.ex 27.stem
Answer criteria
type open ended
rubric
Required: enslaved African American man wrote 'natural and inalienable right to freedom' in 1773 — THREE YEARS BEFORE Jefferson's Declaration. Enslaved African Americans articulated natural-rights philosophy applied to themselves BEFORE the white Founders did.
Hints
  1. Lesson 12 covered Holbrook's 1773 Petition
  2. The KEY framing is the THREE-YEAR priority
Misconceptions to watch
  • Missing the three-year priority over Jefferson
  • Treating Holbrook as marginal to Founding-Era natural-rights philosophy
Used in lessons