Historical thinking skills

A first-hand account of someone who experienced the event at the time it happened is a...

• Secondary Source

• Primary Source

A History textbook is an example of a

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

An audio of Martin Luther King Jr's speech, "I Have a Dream," is an example of a

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

Comparing two or more sources in order to see if evidence agrees or disagrees with each other is an example of...

• Sourcing

• Contextualization

• Corroboration

• Close Reading

Sourcing

• helps us get an accurate picture of the past
• is original documents and objects created at the time of study.
• identifies and answers questions about the origins of the source.
• locates events and sources in time and space.

Understanding who the author of a document is, and examining his or her reliability is an example of..

• Sourcing

• Contextualization

• Corroboration

• Close Reading

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

• Contextualization
• Corroboration
• Close Reading 
• Sourcing 

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

What is bias?

• Being open minded

• Giving both points of view or perspective

• Favoritism in favor of or against something

• Strictly informational

Which statement shows bias?

• Johnny is in the 8th grade at Colonel Richardson Middle School
• My son, Johnny, couldn't have cheated on his test, he's always so sweet and honest.
• Johnny plays on the Mustangs football team
• Johnny has blonde hair and blue eyes.