Exercise 5 Short Document Analysis: Hakluyt's Discourse of Western Planting

NAME:

LEVEL I

1. Who was Hakluyt?

2. When was the text written? Describe an event that happened or a famous person who lived around the time this document was created.

3. Who is the intended audience?

4. What is the basic "story line"?

LEVEL II

5. What type of document is this (hint: why are the points numbered)?

6. What purpose was it meant to serve?

7. What can you glean about the author's perspective, biases, and assumptions? What tone does he adopt and why?

LEVEL III

8. What can we learn about the society that produced this document?

9. Did anything in the document surprise or confuse you? What did you do to figure it out?

10. What does this document mean to you?