Historical Thinking Skills 832

This term means:

one-sided; unfair favoritism

• evaluate

• bias

• perspective

Perspective is:

• facts

• point of view

• discover / reveal

Definition: Finding out who created a source, when, where, and why it was created in order to see if it is reliable

• Sourcing

• Contextualization

• Corroboration

Definition: Comparing two or more sources in order to see if evidence agrees or disagrees with each other

• Sourcing

• Contextualization

• Corroboration

When you consider context, what are you considering?

• background information

• the author's purpose

• secondary sources

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?

• Close Reading

• Contextualization

• Sourcing

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

• Sourcing

Definition: trusted and believed in

• bias

• credibility

• primary source

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