History: What It Is, What It Means?

Main Idea: Mark the main idea

• History is the Hundred Year's War and the first airplane.

• To understand history , facts must be studied and analyzed

• History is all about the past

Mark the statement that is too broad

• History is the Hundred Years' War and the first airplane flight

• To understand history, facts must be studied and analyzed

• History is all about the past.

Mark the statement that is too narrow

• History is the Hundred Years' War and the first airplane flight.

• To understand history, facts must be studies and analyzed.

• History is all about the past.

Subject Matter: Another good title for this passage is

• A History of the World.

• The Story of Nations.

• How to become a Historian.

• Making Sense of History.

Supporting Details: Which of the following is a good example of a visual history source?

• An old photograph

• a diary

• a person's memory

• stories

Conclusion: To be a good historian, a person must not

• want to know about the past.

• be in a hurry

• be able to analyze information

• read a lot.

Clarifying Devices: The question in the second paragraph tells the reader that the sentence that follow will

• list some sources of historical information.

• tel why there is no information about the past.

• tell why history confuses the writer

• give reasons why history is important.

Vocabulary in Context: The word accurate means

• mistaken

• agreeable

• believable

• correct