Being a Historian

What profession is most similar to a Historian?

• Athlete

• Chef

• Artist

• Detective

Which are tools of a historian? (choose 2)

• artifacts

• documents

• gloves

• power tools

What historical thinking skill asks who created the source, when it was written and where it was written?

• Corroboration

• Contextualization

• Sourcing

• Close Reading

What historical thinking skill compares documents to determine if they agree or disagree?

• Sourcing

• Contextualization

• Close Reading

• Corroboration

Adding context to understand a document is which historical thinking skill?

• Sourcing

• Contextualization

• Close Reading

• Corroboration

This historical thinking skill allows you to look closely at a document to understand it.

• Corroboration

• Contextualization

• Close reading

• Sourcing

What is history?

• It's about what happens in the future

• It's about what happens on other planets

• It's about what happened in the past

• It's about what could happen soon

What do we call someone who studies history?

• historian

• writer

• scientist

• mathmetician

Historians study sources to figure out if a document is. . .

• reliable(trustworthy)

• funny

• famous

• scientifically accurate

Choose all the primary sources

• diary

• textbook

• artifact

• photograph

• biography