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[Author, Title, book and line numbers]

[Paste the full source text from your Canvas primary source page]. 

IDENTIFICATION

[Author, Title, lines, culture, genre, date]

IN OUR OWN WORDS

Why this piece is in our exhibit

[What drew your group to this source? What surprised you when you looked closely? What do you want a visitor to notice that they might walk past? Two or three paragraphs, in your own voice — this is the one place in the exhibit where you're not writing as a museum.]

CONTEXT

[Where written, for whom, what genre does to the telling]

WHY IT MATTERS

[What this version includes, omits, emphasises or changes, and what that says about its author]

WHAT THIS SOURCE SHOWS

[Plot, characters, how they're described, setting — several sentences]

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