Historical Thinking Skills

Contextualization

Corroboration

Sourcing

Sourcing

Contextualization

Close Reading

Contextualization

Corroboration

Close Reading

Sourcing

facts

point of view

discover / reveal

Identify the author and the author’s purpose (before you read a document to determine if the source is trustworthy and believable).

Evaluate language and evidence throughout a document to support the author’s claims

a serious disagreement or argument dispute, quarrel, squabble, disagreement, dissension, clash

descriptions or pictures of an event by someone who actually saw or lived through that event (diary or journal entry; photograph)

Evaluate language and evidence throughout a document to support the author’s claims.

come from people who were not present at an event (textbook; encyclopedia)

The act of thinking like a historian by utilizing historical thinking skills such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close reading. • sourcing: Identify the author and the author’s purpose (before you read a document to determine if the source is trustworthy and believable).

descriptions or pictures of an event by someone who actually saw or lived through that event (diary or journal entry; photograph

seeming reasonable or probable. credible, reasonable, believable, possible, conceivable

the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid. proof, confirmation, verification, substantiation, corroboration, affirmation

The act of thinking like a historian by utilizing historical thinking skills such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close reading.