Center African and African American voice, resistance, humanity, and community-building in colonial America — Equiano, Wheatley, Felix Holbrook, Belinda Sutton, Stono Rebellion, the African American family
Exercise Difficulty 5 ~9 min hist.g5.f.ex_48

Wheatley Close Reading Strategic

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 routine + NMAI 5th move to Phillis Wheatley's 'On Being Brought from Africa to America' 1773. Identify the STRATEGIC framing (the poem appears to thank her enslavers BUT ends with assertion of Black personhood as Christian equality).

How it's presented
mode structured form prompt audio ID audio.g5f.ex 48.stem
Answer criteria
type MG7 full plus nmai
rubric
Must identify the strategic-framing reading: Christian-redemption framing used strategically to assert Black personhood as Christian equality
required sections
  1. sourcing
  2. contextualization
  3. corroboration
  4. close_reading
  5. nmai_fifth_move
  6. strategic_framing_identification
Hints
  1. Lesson 21 covered the strategic-framing reading
  2. The poem's closing 'May be refin'd, and join th'angelic train' addresses Christian readers AS EQUALS in salvation
Misconceptions to watch
  • Reading the poem as simple gratitude to enslavers
  • Missing the strategic framing
Used in lessons