1. WORKSHOP- HTS: EVIDENCE
Using H.I.P.P.O. to interpret documents

2. Using H.I.P.P.O. to Interpret Documents
Primary sources= original documents (first hand accounts), raw materials and objects
Secondary sources= documents written after the time or event (second hand accounts)
Primary sources must be analyzed by using their content, evaluating their point of view, and establishing their meaning

3. Using H.I.P.P.O. to Interpret Documents
H. Historical Context- What was the time or setting?
I. Intended Audience- Where was the message directed?
P. Point of View- What was the author’s message?
P. Purpose- Why was it written (created)? What did it hope to accomplish?
O. Organize/Use- how will this source advance my thesis/argument?

4. Practicing the Skill Read the following documents.
Discuss the suggested answers to the first four parts of H.I.P.P.O.

5. Document 1 SOURCE: William Penn to the Delaware Indian Chiefs, 1681
“My friends, there is one great God and power that has made the world and all things. This great God has written his law in our hearts by which we are taught to love, help, and to do good to one another. Now this great God has been pleased to make me concerned in your part of the world. The king of the country where I live has given unto me a great province, but I desire to enjoy it with your love and consent, that we may always live together as neighbors and friends. … I have great love and regard towards you and I desire to gain your love and friendship by a kind, and peaceable life…[.]”

6. Document 2
SOURCE: Roger Williams, from The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, 1644
“God requireth not an uniformity of religion to be enacted and enforced by any civil state; … enforced uniformity… is the greatest occasion of civil war, ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servants, and of hypocrisy and destruction of millions of souls. …the Church of Christ does not use the arm of secular power to compel men to the true profession of truth, for this is done with spiritual weapons, whereby Christians are to be exhorted, not compelled.”

7. Applying the Skill Read and analyze the following sources
Document your responses on your worksheet using the first four parts of H.I.P.P.O.

8. Document 3 SOURCE: Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, January 14, 1639
“We the inhabitants and residents of Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield. …well knowing where a people are gathered together the word of God requires that to maintain the peace and union of such a people there should be an orderly and decent government established according to God…
1. It is ordered, sentenced and decreed that there shall be yearly two general assemblies or courts…
4. It is ordered that no person be chosen governor above once in two years, and that the governor be always a member of some approved congregation.”

9. Document 4 SOURCE: Eliza Lucas, Journal and Letters, 1742
“Now, dear brother, I will obey your command and give you a short description of the part of the world in which I now live. South Carolina is a vast region near the sea. Most of the settled part is flat… South Carolina is filled with fine navigable rivers and great forests of fine timber. The soil in general is fertile. There are few European or American fruits or grains that cannot be grown here…
The people in general are hospitable and honest. The better sort of people are polite and gentle. The poorest sort are the laziest people in the world. Otherwise they would never be poor and wretched in a land as rich as this.”