Grade 4 Fall History - State History as a Framework Unit: Indigenous Homelands, Contact and Sovereignty, Statehood, Geography, Government, Economy, Symbols, and the State Archive (Concrete Example: California; Localizable to Any State or Province)
History · HIS G4 (D2.His.3.3-5; D2.His.5.3-5; D2.His.10.3-5; D2.His.16.4-5 entry; CA HSS 4.2.7; TEKS 4.3; NYS 4.5) hist.g4.f.his.treaty_cession_wineburg

Apply Wineburg 4-question routine plus NMAI 'whose voice is silent' fifth move to a treaty or land-cession document

Apply the FULL Wineburg 4-question routine (SOURCING / CONTEXTUALIZATION / CORROBORATION / CLOSE READING) plus the NMAI fifth move (WHOSE VOICE IS SILENT) to a state-specific treaty or land-cession document (CA: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848 excerpt Article IX; TX: Treaties of Velasco 1836 OR Adams-Onis Treaty 1819; NY: any Haudenosaunee treaty document from state archive). Use State Archive Card (MG-7). This is the unit's highest-stakes source-analysis lesson; full trauma-informed protocols apply.

Mastery threshold
85%
Min instances
6
Typical minutes
60
Spaced intervals (days)
1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 60
Prereqs
Successors
Common misconceptions
  • Treating the treaty as a neutral legal document rather than an asymmetric-power document
  • Skipping the fifth NMAI move - failing to identify whose voice is missing
  • Reading only the document text without applying contextualization

Exercise pool (2)

Diff Stem Type
4 In one sentence: whose voice is silent in Doc-5 and why does that matter? Then in 2 additional sentences: how could we hear that silent... silent voice reflection
5 Apply the FULL Wineburg 4-question routine plus NMAI fifth move to Doc-5 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Article IX excerpt (CA example -... full wineburg doc5