hist.g5.s.ex_50
Declaration Of Sentiments Close Read
MG-7
Interactive
Physical / non-image
Federal Founding-Era Archive Card (continued from G5-Fall) — 4-page foldable card per primary source. PAGE 1 SOURCING: Who made this? When? Where? Why? PAGE 2 CONTEXTUALIZATION: What was happening in the world when this was made? PAGE 3 CORROBORATION: Does another source say the same thing? Does another source disagree? PAGE 4 CLOSE READING: What does this actually say? + NMAI 5th MOVE box: Whose voices are present in this source? Whose voices are absent? What land are we standing on as we read this? G5-Spring extension: source-type checkbox now includes 15 types (added CONSTITUTION-CLAUSE + AMENDMENT + EDITORIAL to G5-Fall's 12). Each child collects ~30 completed MG-7 cards by Lesson 22 in their Founding-Documents Binder (continued from G5-Fall).
Apply MG-7 close reading to Declaration of Sentiments opening paragraph. Identify the deliberate edit + its rhetorical strategy.
- 'and women' edit identified
- Rhetorical strategy: claiming the Founders' language for women's equality
- Stanton modeled deliberately on Declaration of Independence 1776
- The edit is strategic — it cites founding language
- Missing the 'and women' edit
- Treating modeling as coincidence