History Skills

Information or details from a source that can be used for a specific purpose

• Bias

• History

• Evidence

• Close read

Something historians use to learn about the past

• Source

• Limitation

• Annotate

• Author

Materials from the time period being studied

• Perspective

• Primary Source

• Audience

• Reliable

Why something was created

• Audience

• Purpose

• Author

• Secondary Source

The person or group of people that a message is for

• Audience

• Bias

• Perspective

• Evidence

Person or group who created a source

• Close read

• Reliable

• Bias

• Author

A document created based on primary sources and the work of other authors

• Primary Source

• Annotate

• Audience

• Secondary Source

An account of the past constructed from evidene

• History

• Limitation

• Reliable

• Point of view

An opinion or a claim

• Secondary Source

• Purpose

• Point of View

• Close read

A strong opinion that is based more on emotion than on evidence

• Author

• Audience

• Annotate

• Bias