RTI Historical Thinking Skills

Historical Thinking Skills

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Today's Agenda #1

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RTI Historical Causation-Cause

and Effect

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Historical thinking skills includes the reading, analysis, and writing necessary to tell historical stories—not just what we know about the past, but how we know about it.

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​What are Historical Thinking Skills?

Chronological Reasoning

Historical Causation

Compare causes and/or effects, including between short- and long-term.

Analyze and evaluate the interaction of multiple causes and/or effects.

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Multiple Choice

What are Historical Thinking Skills?

• Historical Evidence

• Historical Argumentation

• Causation

• Change and Continuity

• All are examples of Historical Thinking Skills

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​Comparison

What differences do you see with the two boys?

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List any differences do may see with the two boys?

Multiple Choice

What is an effect of a snowstorm?

• One can create a snowman

• Snow is warmer than rain

• Cold weather causes snow

Effects:

Election of Abraham Lincoln

Slavery

Battle of Fort Sumter/Civil War Begins

End of Slavery

South re-enters Union

​What are Causes of the Civil War?

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What is an effect of the Civil War?

• Election of Jefferson Davis

• Election of Abe Lincoln

• Declaration of Independence

• End of Slavery

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RTI Lesson-Interpretation and

Snythesis

Argument

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What do see? Interpret?

Historical Interpretations & Synthesis

Interpretation:

Analyze diverse historical interpretations.

Evaluate how historians’ perspectives influence their interpretations and how models of historical interpretation change over time

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​Bugs Bunny vs Daffy Duck: Friends to the End
(Historical Interpretations & Synthesis)

1. What is Daffy Duck's perspective?

2. What is Donald Duck's perspective?

Multiple Choice

What is Daffy Duck's perspective?

• Daffy Duck looks angry because of the sign on the tree, that says, "Duck Season".

• Daffy Duck looks angry because it's "Rabbit Season".

Multiple Choice

What is Bugs Bunny's perspective?

• Bugs Bunny probably wishes it was Rabbit Season.

• Bugs Bunny is not as mad as Daffy Duck because the sign on the tree says, "Duck Season".

How did the artist convey a sense of the crowd’s emotion toward Lincoln?

What interpretation can you draw upon Lincoln’s Last Days?

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​Lincoln’s Last Days

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What interpretation can you draw upon Lincoln’s Last Days?

Historical Thinking Skills Review

1. Historical Interpretation-analyze diverse historical interpretations

2. Create a historical argument from historical evidence historians must analyze commonly accepted arguments and explain arguments

3. Chronological reasoning is comparing cause and effect in both short and long term events.

4. Chronological reasoning-Analyze and evaluate the interaction of multiple causes and/or effects. EX: Abraham Lincoln elected president secession of the South2

5. Historical interpretation is how historians' perspectives influence their interpretation.

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RTI Lesson-Creating a Historical

Argument

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​Creating a Historical Argument

•An argument takes a stand on an issue. It seeks to persuade an audience of a point of view in much the same way that a lawyer argues a case in a court of law. It is NOT a description or a summary.

•Tips for constructing a good argument:

•Find a Focus: for example find something new about your topic

•Look for Pattern: use evidence and identify patterns

Subject | Subject

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Pizza!!!!

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What is your favorite pizzza? WHY?

Fun Examples for Making an Argument

•Why is pizza the best food to bring friends and family together?

•Pizza is perfect at any time of the day. Pizza can be eaten for breakfast, brunch, dinner, tea, three o’clock in the morning – pizza is perfect. Pizza will wait for you. Pizza is your best friend.

•According to the Washington Post (evidence) In the United States, 350 slices are eaten every second, while 40 percent of Americans eat pizza at least once a week.”

•Pizza brings people together. Due to pizzas versatility there is pizza for everyone’s pallet. No other food can adapt to the desire of party, get together, or last minute hunger pangs. 

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Examples of Historical Arguments
Civil War

States 'Rights as well as Northern abolitionist escalated tensions between the Northern and Southern states.

Southern dependence of slave labor was a primary cause of the Civil War.

Compromises such as the Missouri Compromise and Kansas Nebraska Act increased sectional tensions and ultimately led to the Civil War.

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Which is not an example of a Historical Argument?

• •States' Rights as well as Northern abolitionist escalated tensions between the Northern and Southern states

• Southern dependence of slave labor was a primary cause of the Civil War.

• The Confederacy was victorious.

• •Compromises such as the Missouri Compromise and Kansas Nebraska Act increased sectional tensions and ultimately led to the Civil War

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RTI Lesson-Comparison and Contexualization

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Comparison and Contexualization

Comparison

Explain and evaluate multiple and differing perspectives on a given historical event.

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Examples of Historical Comparison

There is significant overlap between the American Revolutionary War and the events that led up to the Civil War. For example, African American slaves fought on one side or another in the Revolution in hopes of gaining freedom and took up arms again during the Civil War for the same reason. 

​Contextualization

•Explain and evaluate ways in which an event, or process connects to other, similar historical events across time.  

•Example: An argument between two friends?

Question: What are the two friends arguing about?

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Multiple Choice

There is significant overlap between the American Revolutionary War and the events that led up to the Civil War. For example, African American slaves fought on one side or another in the Revolution in hopes of gaining freedom and took up arms again during the Civil War for the same reason. 

What can we compare?

• The Civil War

• African American Slaves

• American Revolution

Contexualization

What context is the student attempting to share with the teacher?

Open Ended

Context:

You witness two friends who are arguing. From your where you are sitting, you notice a half eaten brownie and one of the friends with chocolate on her face.

Please provide context below(what do you think caused the argument)

​Contextualization: Describe the struggles of African Americans and slavery from the American Revolution to the Civil War?

​The American Revolution The Civil War