HISTORICAL THINKING SKILLS CHART

All of the following are key historical thinking skills except

• Sourcing

• Contextualization

• Corroboration

• Watching 8 episodes of Abbott Elementary

• Close Reading

If students are able to:

Identify the author’s position on the historical event

• Identify and evaluate the author’s purpose in producing the document

• Hypothesize what the author will say before reading the document

• Evaluate the source’s trustworthiness by considering genre, audience, and purpose

• Contextualization

• Sourcing

• Corroboration

• Close Reading

If students are able to:

Understand how context/ background information influences the content of the document

• Recognize that documents are products of particular points in time

• Sourcing

• Contextualization

• Corroboration

• Close Reading

If students are able to:

Identify the author’s claims about an event

• Evaluate the evidence and reasoning the author uses to support claims

• Evaluate author’s word choice; understand that language is used deliberately

• Sourcing

• Corroboration

• Close Reading

• Contextualization

If students are able to:

Establish what is probable by comparing documents to each other

• Recognize disparities between accounts

• Contextualization

• Sourcing

• Close Reading

• Corroboration

What do other documents say?

Do the documents agree? If not, why?

• Sourcing

• Contextualization

• Corroboration

• Close Reading

What claims does the author make?

How does the document’s language indicate the author’s perspective?

• Sourcing

• Contextualization

• Corroboration

• Close Reading

When and where was the document created?

• What was different then? What was the same?

• Sourcing

• Contextualization

• Corroboration

• Close Reading

Who wrote this?

• What is the author’s perspective?

• When was it written?

• Sourcing

• Contextualization

• Corroboration

• Close Reading

Who is this?

• Rihanna

• Queen Bee

• Beyonce

• I have no clue