Historical Thinking Skills: Sourcing

The first historical thinking skill that you need to do is______________.

• corroborating

• sourcing

• inferring

• contextualizing

Determining whether a document is reliable is called_____________.

• inferring

• contextualizing

• sourcing

• corroborating

The five things that we try to find out while sourcing are:

• Who, What, When, Where, Why

• What, Why, How, When, Where

• author, title, date, genre, audience

• plot, setting, characters, theme, genre

The "When" of sourcing refers to:

• When the event took place?

• When the document was created?

The "What" of sourcing refers to:

• What is happening in the document?

• What type of document is it?

The "Who" of sourcing refers to:

• Who is the creator of the document?

• Who was at the event when it happened?

The "Where" of sourcing refers to:

• Where the event took place?

• Where the document was found?

Which of the following is a primary source?

• a text message to your friend explaining what happened at school

• your science teacher telling you the homework that you missed in math class

• a text message from your friend telling you what they heard happened at school that day

• none of these are primary sources

Max and Justin got into a fight in the cafeteria. Max's mother might not be reliable because of:

• authority

• corroborating

• context

• bias

During the lunchroom fight, Anthony was far back in the lunch line. What factor would make his account less reliable?

• bias

• inferencing

• proximity

• perspective