Historical Thinking Questions

What does it mean to show bias?

• to be concieted

• to favor one side over another

• to refuse to take a side

• to show selfishness

A relationship between two events where the first event is responsible for the second event.

• cause and effect
• bias and error
• hypothesis and questions
• bias and effect

These sources were present during an experience or time period and offer an inside view of a particular event.

• primary source
• secondary source
• comic book
• coloring book

The main difference between primary sources and secondary sources is....

• if you can find it in a dictionary
• where they are from
• perspective/point-of-view
• if it is fiction or nonfiction

Which term means confirm; support w/ additional evidence?

• facts
• corroborate
• accuracy
• secondary source

Things that are proven to be true

• fact
• opinion
• corroborate
• accuracy

What should you do when you contextualize sources? 

• Determine when and where the document was created. 
• Determine which document is more reliable. 
• Determine the language(words, phrases, images, symbols) that is used in the document. 
• Determine the author of the document 

The questions "Who wrote this?" and "When was it written?" are examples of...

• Contextualization
• Corroboration
• Close Reading 
• Sourcing 

When you cross-check other sources to get a better understanding of a topic, you are...

• Sourcing
• Contextualizing
• Corroborating
• Close Reading

Identifying an author's claims, evidence, and language is an example of which historical thinking skill?

• Sourcing
• Contextualizing
• Corroborating
• Close Reading