8th SS Grade Unit 1 Vocab Quiz

when you find evidence from one perspective that supports evidence from another perspective

• corroborate

• context

information that helps you better understand evidence

• corroborate

• context

Who has an interest in one person getting in trouble instead of another?

• interest

• location

• time

• evidence

• plausibility

Who was standing where?  Could they see the whole event?

• interest

• location

• time

• evidence

• plausibility

Do stories change over time? How might what we remember right after the event differ from what we remember a week later?  Does time make the way someone remembers something more or less trustworthy?

• interest

• location

• time

• evidence

• plausibility

what kinds might have an effect on what you believe? (bruises, missing objects, etc.)

• interest

• location

• time

• evidence

• plausibility

(e.g., issues of exaggeration and how the stories fit into what is known about the students’ prior histories).  Is the story believable? Trustworthy?

• interest

• location

• time

• evidence

• plausibility

Materials written or made by people who lived during historical events and witnessed them

• primary source

• secondary source

Materials written by people who did not participate in an event

• primary source

• secondary source