Historical Thinking Review

Asking yourself "what is the author actually SAYING here?" is an example of

• Close Reading

• Corraboration

• Sourcing

• Contextualization

SOURCING is primarily used for

• Digging into the text to discover meaning

• Gathering reliable sources for research

• Examining major themes and language

• Exploring WHEN something was written and what is different today

Determining when/where a document was written and analyzing similarities/differences between then and now is an example of

• Sourcing

• Corraboration

• Contextualization

• Close Reading

Examining other documents to determine whether they agree/disagree with a source is an example of

• Contextualization

• Close Reading

• Sourcing

• Corraboration

Sourcing is asking the who/what/when/where/why

• True

• False/

The language and words used by an author can tell you a lot about their

• strengths and weaknesses

• Intelligence

• Academic skill

• Perspective

Human beings are fundamentally the same today as they were thousands of years ago

• True

• False

Which is an example of Contextualization?

• Comparing a document to others written around the same time

• Analyzing how events happening during the time period may have effected the document

• Searching a wide array of sources and figuring out which ones are suitable to use

• Examining the text for clues about the author's perspective and views based on language

Having just ONE piece of evidence is good enough to construct a plausible account of events

• True

• False

You CANNOT perform a close reading of pictures, posters, or art

• True

• False