hist.g8.s.ex_11
Essay
MG-7
Diagram
MG-7 TWELVE-Question SOURCE CARD (8.5x11 laminated double-sided): Q1 Who made this? (sourcing); Q2 When + where? (contextualization); Q3 What purpose? (sourcing); Q4 What evidence supports? (close reading); Q5 What other sources corroborate? (corroboration); Q6 What is omitted? (silences); Q7 Audience? (rhetorical context); Q8 What other voices must we seek? (G7 extension); Q9 Is this Lost Cause framing? (G8-Fall extension); Q10 Is the SURVIVOR own-voice centered or marginalized? (NEW); Q11 Have we checked MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES across nationality / class / race / gender / sexuality / ability / age? (NEW); Q12 What is the PRESENT-DAY connection — what does this source mean for our civic action now? (NEW). Sentence frames + bilingual transliteration in 8 languages.
In 3-4 paragraphs analyze Hughes 'I, Too' 1926: identify ≥3 rhetorical strategies + claim about American identity + relationship to Great Migration. Apply MG-7 Q1 + Q3 + Q12.
- Identifies ≥3 rhetorical strategies (e.g. anaphora 'I, Too' + future-tense 'they'll see' + irony + speaker shift)
- States claim about American identity (Black American IS American)
- Connects to Great Migration 1910-70 6M+ Black Americans
- Applies Q1 source + Q3 purpose + Q12 contemporary connection (hip-hop + Beyonce Lemonade 2016)
- Cites Wilkerson 2010
- Hughes shifts speaker mid-poem from 'I, the darker brother' to 'I, too, am America.'
- Per Wilkerson 2010 Great Migration was dual-causation (push + pull).
- Treating poem as solely about race without American-identity claim
- Forgetting Great Migration scale ~6M people