Why History Matters!

Match the following

• Interpretation

• Secondhand information about an event.

• facts

• Something real or true

• Primary source

• The way someone understands something.

• Secondary Source

• firsthand information about an event. Created during the time in question.

• historical record

• any evidence from the past.

Match the following

• Sourcing

• The study of past events.

• History

• The study of how history is done, such as how different people perceive past events and how a source's point of view impacts its portrayal of the past.

• Historical Thinking Skills

• A historical thinking skill which situates historical events, developments, or processes within the broader context in which they occurred to draw conclusions for their signigicance.

• Contextualization

• Asking questions about a particular source, including: Who created it? when? why?

• Historiography

• Reading, analysis and writing that is necessary to tell the stories of our past. Historical Thinking helps us retrieve a more complete picture.

Match the followingA

• Opinion

• A belief, judgment, or thought about something or someone.

• Bias

• Someone or something that is believable or reliable.

• credible

• Prejudice, a tendency to favor one side or person.

List at least two primary sources:

List at least 2 secondary sources.

Give one reason we should study history?