Historical Thinking Skills

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Definition: support or evidence from other sources that makes a claim more certain

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Corroboration

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Definition: a source of information that was created by a person present during the time period being studied

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Primary source

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Perspective

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a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view

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Definition: locates events and sources in time and space

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Contextualization

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Using multiple accounts and perspectives when studying a topic

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Helps us get a more accurate picture of the past

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Definition: identifying and explaining patterns of change and similarity over time

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Continuity and Change Over Time

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Close-Reading can include re-reading the text more than once.

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What skill asks: "What evidence does the author use?"

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Close Reading

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What skill asks: "What circumstances were happening when the document was written?"

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Contextualization

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There is a fight in school. Three witnesses to it all have different accounts of what happened because they all have different

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Perspectives