Finding Text Evidence

Which skill of a historian best matches this statement?

" Extracting knowledge from the past requires finding sources, reading, annotating, and using R.A.C.E. to answer questions about them."

• Research Evidence and Citation

• Evaluating Perspectives

• Map Reading & Orientation

• Hard Work and Perseverance

• Chronological Analysis 

Annotating a text you have read can...

• help you remember what you've read.

• help you locate textual evidence

• help you to predict the future

• help you answer questions about it

What does the "C" in R.A.C.E. stand for?

• Create reason

• Cite evidence

• Copy a quote

• curate evidence

Corroboration

• evidence which confirms or supports a statement, theory, or finding; confirmation

• the act of understanding who wrote a document, where they wrote it, and why they wrote it, for the purposes of analysis or interpretation

• the quality of being trustworthy

• the setting of a word or event

Evidence

• Crime scene pictures.

• Suspect materials.

• Proof from a text that an answer is correct.

• Answers to a question.

Which of the following is a characteristic of a reliable source?

• A source written by a well-known author

• A source that is written anytime before the 2000s

• A source that is based on evidence and fact.

• A source that is found in the library

Corroboration is when you compare a document with other sources to see if other sources agree with the the source you are examining.

• True

• False

This is another word for finding an example from the text that proves you're right.

• Claim

• Evidence

• Analysis

Analysis

• Facts, details, examples, information, or quotations from the text that provide support for an inference or a claim

• To back up an inference or claim with evidence

• To refer to a piece of text as proof

• To break down a text into its parts to determine how the parts relate to one another and to the overall structure or purpose of the text

What are you looking for when a question asks you to provide textual evidence?

• a piece of writing like an article, poem, or story

• proof

• clues (proof) within the text