FA Historical Thinking

What is corroborating?

• Entails a comparison and contrast of the document with other sources to establish its accuracy and validity.

• Evaluate language and evidence throughout a document to support the author’s claims

• The act of thinking like a historian by utilizing historical thinking skills such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close reading.

What is contextualizing?

• : the quality of being trustworthy or of performing consistently well. dependability, sureness, trustworthiness

• prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.

• a serious disagreement or argument dispute, quarrel, squabble, disagreement, dissension, clash

• Use background knowledge to infer the meaning of the document and the setting.

What is evidence?

• prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.

• an agreement or a settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making concessions. agreement, understanding, settlement, deal, trade-off, bargain

• a serious disagreement or argument dispute, quarrel, squabble, disagreement, dissension, clash

• the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid. proof, confirmation, verification, substantiation, corroboration, affirmation

What is bias?

• prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.

• the quality of being trustworthy or of performing consistently well. dependability, sureness, trustworthiness

• a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view. outlook, view, viewpoint, position, stand, stance

• seeming reasonable or probable. credible, reasonable, believable, possible, conceivable

A person’s point of view can be shaped by...

• Gender

• Life experience

• Race & Ethnicity

• All of these

History is an account of the past constructed from (a)  

Each person's account of the past differs based on their (a)  

What is the following sentence an example of?

According to the American Health Association, peanut butter is a great source of protein.

• Claim

• Evidence

• Reason

• Thesis Statement

Which piece of evidence could be used to BEST support this claim:

High school students should be required to wear uniforms.

• When adding everything up, a school uniform could end up costing more than $200.

• A student reported, "Allowing us to wear our own clothes gives us a chance to show our unique style and independence."

• At one school that recently required students to wear uniforms, attendence rates went up, and behavior incidents went down.

• School uniforms can be ordered online .

The following sentence is an example of...?

More school districts should wake up to the benefits of starting school later in the morning.

• Reasoning

• Evidence

• Claim

• Opinion