Historical Thinking Skills: Sourcing

The first historical thinking skill that you need to do is______________.

Determining whether a document is reliable is called_____________.

The five things that we try to find out while sourcing are: Who, What, When, Where, Why

The "When" of sourcing refers to:

The "What" of sourcing refers to: What is happening in the document? What type of document is it?

The "Who" of sourcing refers to:

The "Where" of sourcing refers to:

Which of the following is a primary source? a text message to your friend explaining what happened at school, your science teacher telling you the homework that you missed in math class, a text message from your friend telling you what they heard happened at school that day, none of these are primary sources

Max and Justin got into a fight in the cafeteria. Max's mother might not be reliable because of: authority, corroborating, context, bias

During the lunchroom fight, Anthony was far back in the lunch line. What factor would make his account less reliable?