hist.g8.s.ex_30
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 4-5 paragraphs close-read MLK Letter from Birmingham Jail April 16 1963. Identify ≥3 rhetorical strategies (e.g. anaphora + biblical allusion + concrete imagery + ethos appeal) + ≥3 claim-evidence-warrant units + MLK's specific argument that 'white moderate' is bigger obstacle than overt racist. Apply MG-7 Q1 + Q3 + Q11.
- ≥3 rhetorical strategies identified
- ≥3 claim-evidence-warrant units
- Cites 'white moderate' passage
- Applies Q1 + Q3 + Q11
- Refuses MLK-only framing per Hall 2005 (acknowledges 8 Birmingham clergy)
- ≥3 sources
- MLK addresses 8 white Birmingham clergy 'A Call for Unity' April 12 1963.
- Letter cites Augustine + Aquinas + Niebuhr + biblical references.
- Treating Letter as universal moral pronouncement without 1963 specificity
- Forgetting white-moderate critique