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12019-01-13T20:37:57-08:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a72008Benjamin Bankhurst, Kyle Roberts, and Eleanor Andersenplain2019-02-09T14:09:07-08:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aYou have been assigned a selection from a genuine announcement written by John Penn, the grandson of the founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn. Selection one covers the first paragraph, selection two covers the middle two, and selection three covers the final paragraph. Public officials hung this bulletin, or broadside, around Philadelphia in the summer of 1765 in response to unrest on the frontier.
First, read through your assigned selection. Then, transcribe the selection word-for-word in a Google Doc. In order to demonstrate comprehension of the text, rewrite your selection in vernacular English, or as you might speak to a friend.
This text may be confusing. It is more than 250 years old, so the language may seem unfamiliar. Take it one clause at a time, and think carefully as you a read.
Steps
Read your assigned portion of the broadside.
Rewrite your assigned portion word-for-word in a Google Doc.
Rewrite your assigned portion thought-for-thought, as you might talk to a friend.
Label and submit your two transcriptions using Google Drive.
Homework Write and submit a one-paragraph response (3-5 sentences) to the question below. Consult your classmates transcriptions on Google Drive in order to write your response. You are welcome though not required to share your thoughts on the assignment.
Question: What bias do you detect in this source? How can you tell that the source is biased? Cite specific evidence.
12018-07-23T00:49:09-07:00Penn Proclamation, June 4, 1765 - 11By The Honourable John Penn, Esq; Lieutenant-Governor and Commander in Chief of the Province of Pennsylvania, and Counties of New-Castle, Kent, and Sussex, on Delaware, A Proclamation. : Whereas His Majesty, by His Royal Proclamation, given at St. James's the Seventh Day of October, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-three ... was graciously pleased to declare and enjoin, that the Trade with the several Nations of Tribes of Indians ... should be free and open to all His Majesty's Subjects whatever ... Given under my Hand, and the Great Seal of the said Province, at Philadelphia, the Fourth Day of June, in the Fifth Year of His Majesty's Reign, and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-five.2018-07-23T00:49:09-07:00
