Historical Thinking Skills

What kind of source is an autobiography or memoir?

• primary source

• secondary source

What kind of source is a textbook?

• primary source

• secondary source

Which term means how a person sees an event? (their point of view)

• values
• opinion
• perspective
• fact

What is a historian?

• a person who researches, studies, and writes about the past

• a person who studies the history of life on Earth through the fossil record

• a person who studies the solid, liquid, and gaseous matter that constitutes Earth

The intentional use of language to present a one sided description.

• Blast

• Bias

• Perspective

• Point of view

A Wikipedia article about President Barack Obama.

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

You are studying September 11, 2001. Which of the following would be a secondary source?

• A newspaper article written on 09/11/01.

• A newspaper article written on 9/11/22.

• Transcripts from phone calls made out of the World Trade Centers on 09/11/01.

• Video footage of the actual attacks.

What skill asks: "What circumstances were happening when the document was written?"

• Sourcing

• Close Reading

• Contextualization

• Corroboration

What skill asks: "What do other documents/sources say? Do they agree?"

• Sourcing

• Close Reading

• Contextualization

• Corroboration

What skill asks: "Why was this document written?"

• Sourcing

• Close Reading

• Contextualization

• Corroboration