Historical Thinking Skills

Which historical thinking skill do the following questions most closely relate to:

Who created it? From what perspective or point of view? When was it written? Why was it written? Is it reliable?

• Contextualization

• Corroboration

• Sourcing

The following questions represent which Historical Thinking skill?

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

• Sourcing

• Contextualization

• Close Reading

The following questions represent which Historical Thinking skill?

What do other documents say? Do the documents agree? If not, why? What are other possible documents? What documents are most reliable?

• Contextualization

• Corroboration

• Close Reading

• Sourcing

Perspective is:

• facts

• point of view

• discover / reveal

Why should we study history? 

• Learn about our past (ancestors, culture, advancements, leaders)
• Learn from our mistakes
• Create a better future
• All of the options are correct.

These sources were present during an experience or time period and offer an inside view of a particular event.

• primary source
• secondary source
• comic book
• coloring book

Written at the time of the event

• primary source
• secondary source

What is a primary source?

• 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)

What is a secondary source?

• 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

What is historical thinking?

• 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.