Historical Thinking Deeper Dive

What is a historian?

• a person who researches, studies, and writes about the past, and is considered an expert on it

• a person who studies human activity through the recovery and analysis of artifacts from today and the past

• a person who studies the history of life on Earth through the fossil record

• a person who studies the solid, liquid, and gaseous matter that constitutes Earth and other terrestrial planets

What is a primary source?

• an artifact, a document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, a recording, or other source that was created at the time of study

• created later by someone who did not experience first-hand or participate in the events researched

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

• an educated guess based on evidence & prior knowledge

What is a secondary source?

• an artifact, a document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, a recording, or other source that was created at the time of study

• created later by someone who did not experience first-hand or participate in the events researched

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

• an educated guess based on evidence & prior knowledge

What is a generalization?

• a period of history with a particular feature or characteristic

• a period of ten years

• a period of a thousand years

• assuming something about a group of people based on little information

Why is contextualization a useful skill?

• Giving context to the source helps to understand how the environment influences what is in the text.

• Finding out when/where the source was written.

• It helps you determine if a source is reliable.

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

• Perspective
• Angle
• Motive
• Opinion

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

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 .

Which of the following is true about Historical Interpretations?

• They remain the same.

• History is about memorizing the facts.

• Historical interpretations are open to revision based upon new facts and ideas.

• History is only open to one interpretation based upon facts.