Tecnológico de Monterrey I PrepaTec I PH1009 Liberalism & expansion

Name: _________________________________________________________________ ID: ____________________ Date: _________________

Title of the document: __________________________________________________________________________________________________

IDENTIFYING ORIGIN
1. What type of document is it?
➭ Pamphlet ➭ Newspaper article ➭ Report ➭ Advertisement ➭ Telegram
➭ Book ➭ Journal / diary entry ➭ Press release ➭ Speech ➭ Other:
2. Who is the author? 3. When and where was the document created?
What is the author’s name? Position / title? Background (place of birth, education, social class)? What is the year of its creation? Was it published in a different year? When? Why? Where was the document
created?

CLOSE READING
1. What do I observe? 2. What does it mean?
What is the style of the text (Narrative, Descriptive, Informative, Persuasive)? What parts of the text make What inferences can be made based on your observations? What does the language tell you about the
you think so? What words are used more than once? What synonyms or words that refer to the same thing author’s perspective / feelings / ideology? What information can be gathered from the text that is not
can you find in the document? Are there any contradictions within the text? explicitly stated in it?

3. What is the main idea? 4. What is the argument’s structure?

What does the author write about? What claims does he make? Restate the main idea in your own words. What supporting details does the author provide to support his/her claims?

CONTEXTUAL READING
1. What is the historical context of the document? 2. Who was the intended audience?
What historical event / process does the document relate to? What attitudes, ideas, beliefs were prevalent at Was the document addressed to a specific person? Who might have been in a position to read the
that time? document? How might the author try to influence the audience? Would they have been convinced?

3. How does the content relate to the historical context? 4. How does the author relate to the historical context?
Does the document represent the point of view of a particular group? How might the document have been Did the author participate in the events or witness them? How might historical events shape the author’s
shaped by surrounding events? How might the document have shaped surrounding events? perspective? What bias can you identify? Is there any reason to believe the author might be omitting /
ignoring information?