Hist Thinking Review

Which term means how a person sees an event? (their point of view)

• values
• opinion
• perspective
• fact

What should you do when you contextualize sources? 

• Determine when and where the document was created and consider how that impacted its creation.

• Determine which document is more reliable. 
• Determine the language(words, phrases, images, symbols) that is used in the document. 
• Determine the author of the document 

to put things in the order in which they happened

• composition order

• contextual order

• chronological order

• perspective

Match the following

• primary source

• autobiography

• primary source

• article written by someone who witnessed an event

• secondary source

• textbook

• primary source

• article written by someone who heard about an event from someone else

• secondary source

• artifacts, such as tools, that were used by people in the past

continuity has to do with...

• 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

These sources were present during an experience or time period and offer an inside view of a particular event.

• primary source
• secondary source
• comic book
• coloring book

What is historical thinking?

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

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

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

What is sourcing?

• Identify the who, what, when, and where of a source, as well as considering their perspective and audience

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

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

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

Match the following historical thinking skills to their definitions.

• Understanding a document in relation to time and place of creation

• Close Reading

• Analyzing and asking questions of a document

• Contextualization

• Comparing and contrasting different sources

• Sourcing

• Using the 5 Ws to consider the creation of the source

• Corroboration

Is this painting of "Washington Crossing the Delaware" from 1850 a primary or secondary source of the Revolutionary War in 1776?

• Primary
• Secondary