Historical Thinking Skills quiz practice

Definition: Who wrote this? What is the author's perspective? Why was it written? When was it written? Where was it written? Is it reliable? Why? Why not?

• Questions to be asked about Contextualization:

• Questions to be asked about Corroboration:

• Questions to be asked about Sourcing:

• History

Definition: To favor one group, person, opinion, or thing over another in a way that is usually declared unfair.

• Reliable

• Corroboration

• Evidence

• Bias

Definition: documents based on primary sources and the work of others; sources that interpret, critique and analyze primary sources.

• Sourcing

• Point of View (POV)

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

Definition: information from a source that can be used for a specific purpose

• Reliable

• Source

• Evidence

• Point of View (POV)

Definition: Someone who studies and writes about the past

• Questions to be asked about Sourcing:

• Contextualization

• History

• Historian

To examine events that led up to or occurred during the creation of the source to see how that impacted its content - what was happening when the source was created.

• History

• Historian

• Contextualization

• Questions to be asked about Sourcing

Something historians use to learn about the past.

• Source

• Predictions

• Bias

• Reliable

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

• Questions to be askd about Sourcing:

• Questions to be asked about Corroboration

• Secondary Source

• Questions to be asked about Contextualization

Definition: original source from the time period being studied - firsthand account

• Historian

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

• Bias

Definition: an account of the past created from evidence that may differ based on the point of view of the witness/author

• Questions to be asked about Sourcing:

• Contextualization

• Historian

• History