Check for Understanding

The paragraph in your SC History textbook about the Plains Indians and their hunting methods.

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

A model created by a student in your class of the Great Pyramid’s in Egypt

• primary source

• secondary source

An old photograph of your great-grandparent’s wedding reception.

• primary source

• secondary source

A collection of diary entries from women who traveled along the Santa Fe Trail printed together in a book in 2007.

• primary source

• secondary source

The copy of the U.S. Constitution in the back of your U.S. History textbook.

• primary source

• secondary source

A newspaper article from 1945 about the end of World War Two.

• primary source

• secondary source

An article on Wikipedia about President Abraham Lincoln.

• primary source

• secondary source

A map created by Captain Meriwether Lewis on the journey of discovery from Missouri to Oregon.

• primary source

• secondary source

Read the following descriptions and answer the questions by circling the correct answer.

Mary is preparing to analyze the Declaration of Independence. BEFORE she reads the document, Mary looks at information about Thomas Jefferson, the author. She discovers that he lived in Virginia, was an architect and designed his own home, and that he had a passion for new exciting foods, such as macaroni!

Mary is thinking like a historian because she is demonstrating the skill of…

• corroborating

• contextualizing

• close reading

• sourcing

Read the following descriptions and answer the questions by circling the correct answer.

Karl has begun to research the way Native Americans used to farm in Kansas in the 1800s. In order to make the best inference possible, he looks at a primitive farming tool made from bison bones, photographs taken by a famous photographer who traveled around to study different native American tribes, as well as maps and graphs of the climate patterns throughout Kansas history. He then compares the sources to see what information is agreed upon.

Which of the following is Karl doing?

• corroborating

• contextualizing

• close reading

• sourcing