Historical Thinking Skills Retake

Any person, place, or thing that supplies information; in history class they might be documents or pictures

• Source

• Context

• Historian

Context

• 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.

Primary Sources

• Created at the time of study by someone involved.
• Created after the time of study by someone not involved.

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?

• Comparison

• Developments and processes

• Sourcing

The following questions represent which Historical Thinking skill?

What is the "big picture" of when this document was created? What was going on in the world around it? What events led up to it?

• Claims and evidence

• Contextualization

• Close Reading

Perspective is:

• facts

• point of view

• discover / reveal

• making connections

To look for things that may be similar or things that may be different.

• sourcing

• Context

• Comparison

To learn by asking questions through research using primary and secondary sources.

• Comparison

• Periodization

• Evidence

What question best helps us think about comparison?

• How did the event impact peoples’ lives?

• How are two or more historical developments similar or different?

• How do periods of history start and end?

Placing the event in time and place of when it happened in order to understand what circumstances may have influenced the document is...

• making a historical claim

• Contextualization

• argumentation

• Close Reading