Historical Reasoning Skills Review

The textbook, newspaper, eyewitness and photo are all good _____________ when you want to get information

• Sources
• Information
• Places
• things

The same accident looked different to the three witnesses because they each had a different ____________ of the accident.

• Perspective
• Angle
• Motive
• Opinion

It is easy to ______________ apples to oranges, they are both fruits and they are round

• Eat
• Smell
• Compare
• Difference

This term means:
one-sided; unfair favoritism

• evaluate
• accuracy
• perspective
• bias

What should you do when you contextualize sources? 

• Determine when and where the document was created. 
• Determine which document is more reliable. 
• Determine the language(words, phrases, images, symbols) that is used in the document. 
• Determine the author of the document 

causation (SSP.04)

• determining how one event leads to another

• a particular attitude or way of considering a matter; perspective

• a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief

• a conclusion reached based on evidence and inferences

continuity & change over time (SSP.05)

• an account of the past

• acknowledging what stays the same, and what is different, over a period of time

• imagining the time period in which a document was created

• Putting events in sequence and making connections based on related continuity and change