Historical Thinking Vocabulary

Another word for Source, tends to prover or disprove something.

• Primary Source

• Close Reading

• Corroboration

• Evidence.

The origional records of a particular time in history.

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

• Evidence

• Sourcing

The act of carefully reading or studying a piece of evidence.

• Point of View

• Close Reading

• Secondary Source

• History

An account of the past.

• History

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

• Intended Audience

The connection between the source or piece of evidence and the wider historical events happening.

• Context

• Corroboration

• Primary Source

• History

Looks at the circumstances that led to a piece of evidence's creation.

• Purpose

• Secondary Source

• sourcing

• Point of View.

Evidence written or created after, often long after, the orgiional event or moment in time.

• Primary Source

• Sourcing

• Context

• Secondary Source

The readson a piece of evidence was created.

• purpose

• Point of view

• intended audience

• Primary Source

the creator's opinion.

• Intended audience

• Primary Source

• Context

• point of view

Refers to the group of people or individual the creator of the source is speaking to.

• Point of View

• Intended Audience

• Corroboration

• History.