Lesson 3: Written document analysis worksheet
1. Type of document (check one):
|___ Newspaper||___ Map||___ Advertisement|
|___ Letter||___ Telegram||___ Congressional record|
|___ Patent||___ Press release||___ Census report|
|___ Memorandum||___ Report||___ Other|
2. Unique physical qualities of the document (check one or more):
|___ Interesting letterhead||___ Notations||___ Handwritten|
|___ Typed||___ Seals or stamps||___ Other|
3. Date(s) of document:
4. Author (or creator) of document:
5. For what audience was the document written?
6. Document Information
There are many possible ways to answer the following questions.
List three things the author said that you think are important:
Why do you think this document was written?
What evidence in the document helps you to know why it was written? Quote from the document:
List two facts the document tells you about life in the United States at the time it was written:
Write a question to the author that is left unanswered by the document:
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