Analyze the 12-year Road to Revolution 1763-1775 — Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Townshend Acts, Boston Massacre, Tea Act and Boston Tea Party, Coercive Acts, First Continental Congress — including Patriot organizing AND Loyalist perspectives
Exercise Difficulty 5 ~9 min hist.g5.f.ex_35

Revere Engraving Wineburg

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 full Wineburg routine to Paul Revere's Boston Massacre engraving 1770. Identify it as PROPAGANDA and explain why.

How it's presented
mode structured form prompt audio ID audio.g5f.ex 35.stem
Answer criteria
type MG7 full
rubric
Must identify engraving as Patriot propaganda + Revere as Sons of Liberty member + contrast with what trial records and John Adams's defense reveal
required sections
sourcingcontextualizationcorroborationclose_reading
Hints
  1. Lesson 16 covered the Wineburg sourcing
  2. Engraving shows soldiers in calm rank-and-file — NOT how it happened
Misconceptions to watch
  • Treating engraving as neutral reportage
  • Missing Revere's Sons of Liberty membership