Refer to the discussion post rubric for your initial post and for your response post for insight on how to maximize your score.
Make sure you have read Edwards Chapter 4, the primary sources, and watched the documentary clips before posting an answer to these questions (and include support from them in your answer).
Examine the above embroidery entitled: “The First, Second and Last Scenes of Mortality Download The First, Second and Last Scenes of Mortality” by Prudence Punderson (1758-1784). You can find out more about Prudence and this picture in your textbook in Chapter 4 (go do that right now). Prudence was a young Puritan woman who lived in the 18th century in Connecticut and stitched this herself. The embroidery is a unique primary source document and deserves our analysis.
Acting as an historian, observe the embroidery first with these questions in mind:
What do you see?
What do you notice first?
What people and objects are shown?
How are they arranged?
What is the physical setting?
What, if any, words do you see?
What other details can you see?
Now, still acting as an historian, reflect on what you have observed. Answer any two of the following questions in your initial post:
A. Why do you think this image was made?
B. What’s happening in the image? Why do you think so?
C. When do you think it was made? Why?
D. Who do you think was the audience for this image? Why?
E. What tools were used to create this? Why do you think so?
F. What can you learn from examining this image?
G. If someone made this today, what would be different? Why?
What would be the same? Why?
Now, still acting as an historian, you need to develop a question that could lead to more observations and reflections. The second part of your initial post is to develop such a question. Some ideas could be:
What do you wonder about…
who? • what? • when? • where? • why? • how?
Your response post needs be a thoughtful and reflective attempt to answer the question(s) of another student–thinking as an historian would. Remember to include sources in your answer.
