What do we know about the author of this source?
Step One: Historicization
- What do we know about the author of this source?
- What do we know about the time in which it was created?
- What do we know about the place in which it was created?
Step Two: Deconstruction
- Reading with the Grain
- What messages did the author/creator of this source want to convey?
- To what audience did the author/creator intend to communicate?
- Reading against the Grain
- What assumptions lie behind the text of this source?
- What information does it communicate that its author/creator might not have intended?