Mr. V Historical Thinking Skills Quiz

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

Hypothesize:

• to reach a conclusion based on an assumption

• reveal/discover

• to find

• examine/judge carefully

To find out:

• Identify

• Hypothesize

• Evaluate

• Analyze

Evaluate

• to reach a conclusion based on an assumption

• investigate

• to examine / judge carefully

• discover/reveal

Evidence

• proof

• disagreements

• discover/reveal

• examine/judge carefully

Analyze

• proof

• discover/reveal

• find out

• to reach a conclusion