Historical Thinking Skills

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?

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

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?

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

The act of comparing pieces of evidence and seeing if they agree or disagree is known as

• Analysis

• Contextualiztion

• Causation and Consequence

• Corroboration

Artifacts, documents, and written or oral descriptions left behind that are analyzed as clues from the past is known as

• Evidence

• Context

• Causation

• Corroboration

To think about what was going on when a particular document was created, and to consider how that might have influenced the content of the document is known as

• Causation

• Contextualizaton

• Corroboration

• Periodization

What does it mean if two documents corroborate each other?

• they show author's purpose

• they agree with each other on a time in history

• they show point of view

When you consider context, what are you considering?

• background information

• the author's purpose

• secondary sources

Sourcing

• 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.