Source Card Analysis

8.5x11 inch laminated double-sided card. FRONT: 'MG-7 Ancient-and-Classical Source Card' header; 6 numbered questions: (1) SOURCING — Who created this source? When? Where? Why? (Wineburg Move 1); (2) CONTEXTUALIZATION — What was happening at the time and place this source was created? What had just happened? What was about to happen? (Wineburg Move 2); (3) CORROBORATION — Does another source from the same time and place agree or disagree? Is the creator a partisan? (Wineburg Move 3); (4) CLOSE READING — What does the source literally say in its words? What does it leave unsaid? (Wineburg Move 4); (5) LIVING DESCENDANTS — Who today is a living descendant of the people who created or were addressed by this source? How do they treat this source as a living heritage? (NMAI Essential Understanding 5 extended); (6) WHOSE TRANSLATION? WHOSE SILENCES? — Who translated this source into English and when? What perspective is MISSING from this source (e.g., the slave perspective on Diocletian's edicts, the dasi/dasa perspective on Ashoka's edicts)? (WHA / SHEG move). BACK: scaffolded sentence frames for each question; a short-form version (4 Wineburg-only questions) for students still building source-analysis stamina.

8.5x11 inch educator handout: top quarter shows photograph of one of the rock-cut Ashokan edicts (e.g., the Girnar inscription site in Gujarat); next three quarters show three selected edicts in N.A. Nikam and Richard McKeon 1959 translation: (1) ROCK EDICT II — 'Everywhere in the dominions of his Majesty the King... two kinds of medical treatment have been provided — medical treatment for men and medical treatment for animals' (the world's earliest known imperial declaration of veterinary care + universal human medical care); (2) ROCK EDICT XIII — 'When His Majesty the King had been consecrated eight years the (country of the) Kalingas was conquered. One hundred and fifty thousand persons were carried away thence as captives, one hundred thousand were there slain... His Majesty feels remorse on account of the conquest of the Kalingas' (the famous Kalinga-remorse edict — one of the earliest extant royal-conscience declarations); (3) PILLAR EDICT VII — 'His Majesty thus speaks: I have caused this Edict of Dhamma to be written. Let it endure as long as my sons and great-grandsons shall reign... for the welfare and happiness of the world.' Bottom edge: 'Source: Ashoka Major Rock Edicts c. 268-232 BCE. Translation: Nikam and McKeon 1959.' MG-7 Source Card prompts printed on reverse.