In this activity, students will read Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Declaration of Sentiments from the Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls in 1848, and compare the text of the Declaration of Sentiments to the Declaration of Independence. Separate graphic organizers for middle and high school guide students through a close reading of the text using the ELA strategy, “What does it say? How does it work? What does it mean?” As an optional extension activity, students write their own “Declarations.”