Author and mail a 5-paragraph federal Civic-Action Letter to a US Representative or Senator about a Founding-Era issue that still matters today
Exercise Difficulty 3 ~6 min hist.g5.f.ex_47

Primary Source Citation Identify

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

Identify TWO primary sources from your MG-7 binder that will support P2 and P3 of your federal Civic-Action Letter. Cite by source title + date + author.

How it's presented
mode writing prompt audio ID audio.g5f.ex 47.stem
Answer criteria
type open ended
rubric
2 primary sources with author + title + date from unit's primary-source list
Hints
  1. Use your MG-7 binder
  2. Each Founding-Era issue has primary-source connections from the unit
Misconceptions to watch
  • No primary-source citation
  • Secondary source instead of primary
Used in lessons