Historical thinking skills 23 H

When you are sourcing, what questions might you be trying to answer? (Check all that apply)

• What type of source is it?

• Why was it written?

• Where was it written?

• Who wrote it?

• What is the author's perspective?

(a)   is the ability to compare information provided by two separate sources and find similarities between them.

(a)   is when you inquire about the origins of the document, and it is the first step in understanding historical documents

What questions are you attempting to answer when are close reading sources?

• How might the circumstances in which the document was created affect its content?

• What documents are most reliable?

• What claims does the author make?

• What evidence does the author use? What language (words, phrases, images, symbols) does the author use to persuade the documents audience?

• How does the documents language indicate the authors perspective?

(a)   is thoughtful, critical analysis of a text that focuses on significant details or patterns in order to develop a deep, precise understanding of the text's form, craft, meanings, etc.

Which historical thinking skill do the following questions most closely relate to:

Who created it? From what perspective or point of view? When was it written? Why was it written? Is it reliable?

• Contextualization

• Corroboration

• Sourcing

The following questions represent which Historical Thinking skill?

When and where was the document created? What was different then? What was the same? How might the circumstances in which the document was created affect its content?

• Sourcing

• Contextualization

• Close Reading

The following questions represent which Historical Thinking skill?

What do other documents say? Do the documents agree? If not, why? What are other possible documents? What documents are most reliable?

• Contextualization

• Corroboration

• Close Reading

• Sourcing

Evidence

• proof

• disagreements

• discover/reveal

• examine/judge carefully

Perspective is:

• facts

• point of view

• discover / reveal