What’s the connection between these documents?
In this activity, you will analyze and compare/contrast selections from two related documents from different periods of history. Answer the questions below.
For each of the above documents, answer the following:
- What type of document is it?
- Describe it as if you were explaining to someone who can’t see it.
- Who wrote it?
- Who read/received it?
- When is it from?
- Where is it from?
- What is it talking about?
- Write one sentence summarizing this document.
- Why was it written? Quote evidence from the document that tells you this.
- What was happening at the time in history this document was created?
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