Historical Thinking Skills

Which historical thinking skill do the following questions most closely relate to:

Who created it? From what perspective or point of view? When was it written? Why was it written? Is it reliable?

• Contextualization

• Corroboration

• Sourcing

The following questions represent which Historical Thinking skill?

When and where was the document created? What was different then? What was the same? How might the circumstances in which the document was created affect its content?

• Sourcing

• Contextualization

• Close Reading

The following questions represent which Historical Thinking skill?

What do other documents say? Do the documents agree? If not, why? What are other possible documents? What documents are most reliable?

• Contextualization

• Corroboration

• Close Reading

• Sourcing

The following questions represent which Historical Thinking Skill?

What claims does the author make? What evidence does the author use? What language (words, phrases, images, symbols) does the author use to persuade the document’s audience? How does the document’s language indicate the author’s perspective?

• Close Reading

• Sourcing

• Contextualization

• Corroboration

Perspective is:

• facts

• point of view

• discover / reveal

the political, social, cultural, and economic environment related to historical moments, events, and trends

• Evidence

• Historical Context

• Close Reading

The textbook, newspaper, eyewitness and photo are all good _____________ when you want to get information

• Sources
• Information
• Places
• things

The same accident looked different to the three witnesses because they each had a different ____________ of the accident.

• Perspective
• Angle
• Motive
• Opinion

This term means:
one-sided; unfair favoritism

• evaluate
• accuracy
• perspective
• bias

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