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WorksheetsHistorical Thinking skills
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 22mins
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
To find out:
Identify
Hypothesize
Evaluate
Analyze
Evaluate
to reach a conclusion based on an assumption
investigate
to examine / judge carefully
discover/reveal
Evidence
proof
disagreements
discover/reveal
examine/judge carefully
Definition: fit to be trusted or relied on
perspective
reliable
persuade
Definition: a source of information that discusses information originally presented elsewhere
primary source
secondary source
evidence
claim
account
Definition: something which shows that something else is true
primary source
secondary source
evidence
claim
account
Definition: Finding out who created a source, when, where, and why it was created in order to see if it is reliable
Sourcing
Contextualization
Close Reading
Corroboration
Definition: support or evidence that makes a case more certain
Sourcing
Contextualization
Close Reading
Corroboration
Definition: a position from which something is considered or evaluated
perspective
reliable
persuade
Definition: a source of information that was created by a witness during the time period being studied
primary source
secondary source
evidence
claim
account
The act of thinking like a historian by utilizing historical thinking skills such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close reading is known as....
Historical Thinking
Reliability
Purpose
Perspective
Bias
a person's role in an event (i.e. a witness or a person in a fight
comes from people who were not present at the event
first hand account of events
an unreasoned, emotional judgment about people or events
Historical Context is known as
the events that led to an event; includes the imte period and larger historical trends as well as causes
where a historical event took place and why it took place there; includes location, location relative to other places, geographic features, and climate
