The Four Instruments: One Line

Middle school · English

Answer in your own words.

The source: who made it, and for whom?

Who gets the mark? Find the words.

Does the mark pass through mothers as well as fathers? How do you know?

What can it not tell us?

Claim

Evidence

Reasoning

1. Which of the four documents matters most?The Pledge, 1779The Proclamation, 1784Dorchester’s Order, 1789Simcoe’s Proclamation, 1796

Why?

2. Find one phrase in the source that shows the mark is for children as well as parents.

3. Why did Simcoe need to make his order in 1796?

4. What stayed the same from 1779 to 1796, and what was added each time?

5. Which point of view did you choose to explain?Many people todayThe Loyalist societiesThe Mohawk Nation of Grand River

Why might that group see the mark that way?

6. If the Crown ordered a register and it was never made, who should make it now?

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