Unit 1 Vocab & Historical Thinking

An explanation for a claim that uses evidence to support it

• Claim

• Endure

• Argument

• Limitation

An opinion supported by evidence

• Argument

• Claim

• History

• Issue

Why something was created/ Why something was done

• Significant

• Limitation

• Audience

• Purpose

Lasting for a long time

• Issue

• Endure

• Argument

• Limitation

An account of the past constructed from evidence

• History

• Endure

• Author

• Evidence

Which of the following is a characteristic of History?

• An account of the past constricted from Evidence

• Information or details from a source used for a specific purpose

• The account of the past differs based on the authors point of view

Point of view can be shaped by which of the following?

• life experience

• ethnicity

• gender

• nationality

Annotating includes which of the following?

• Circling words that are unclear

• Writing a one paragraph summary

• Writing questions/statements in the margins

• none of these

While sourcing you should ask yourself which of the following questions?

• Who wrote it? What do you know about them?

• Why was it written? What's the author's purpose?

• When was the article written?

• All of these

What two types of sources are used by historians to learn about the past? (Pick 2!)

• Primary

• Direct

• Secondary

• Personal