greg annotations

Purpose:  To engage deeply with texts that represent key milestones in American  democracy through social reading, ensuring authentic, real-time  analysis.

Directions:

• Access both The Emancipation Proclamation and the Maria W. Stewart "Lecture Delivered at Franklin Hall" through our youtube.
   
• As you read the documents, you must contribute a minimum of four (4) substantive annotations across the two texts:
   
  • Highlight a specific phrase,  rhetorical choice, or legal parameter. Write a comment analyzing the  limitations of emancipation as outlined in the text, or how the text  redefined the purpose of the American republic. How do Lincoln and  Stewart have similar and different conceptions of emancipation and  freedom? In what sense (if any) are the documents talking to each other?
     
  • Possible points of discussion: How does Stewart’s holistic vision of  emancipation (intellectual, spiritual, and economic) expose the  deliberate limitations of Lincoln’s strictly legal and military decree?  Discuss the difference between freedom that is bestowed by a governing  authority versus freedom that is claimed and fought for by an oppressed  community. How do the authors view the political agency of Black  Americans differently?
  • You must have at least one annotation for each document.
  • You must use some evidence or knowledge from the OER or another reading/media for the week.

Note: Substantive annotations are typically 2-4 sentences long and demonstrate critical historical thinking.