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 ___________

Each person's account of the past differs based on their ___________

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