This week, we’re reading the Declaration of Independence, a foundational document in the United States’s history. We’re also reading Layli Long Soldier’s poem, “38.”

In a comment below, write one paragraph in response to each of the following questions:

  • What matters to the writers of the Declaration of Independence?
  • What matters to Layli Long Soldier in “38”?
  • What matters to you to the kind of degree that you would write something as passionately, emphatically, or angrily as these authors did?