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Historical Thinking Skills Basics Honors

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 3hrs 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the purpose of using evidence as a historical thinking skill?

a)

It allows us to use facts and filter out bias to create an accurate story of what happened.

b)

It gives us the ability to always know the truth from just one source.

2.

Placing the event in time and place of when it happened in order to understand what circumstances may have influenced the document is...

a)

Sourcing

b)

Contextualization

c)

Corroboration

d)

Close Reading

3.

causation (SSP.04)

a)

determining how one event leads to another

b)

a particular attitude or way of considering a matter; perspective

c)

a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief

d)

a conclusion reached based on evidence and inferences

4.

continuity & change over time (SSP.05)

a)

an account of the past

b)

acknowledging what stays the same, and what is different, over a period of time

c)

imagining the time period in which a document was created

d)

Putting events in sequence and making connections based on related continuity and change

5.

To look for things that may be similar or things that may be different.

a)

Periodization

b)

Context

c)

Comparison

6.

To find more than one cause and/or effect of a historical event

a)

Causation

b)

Evidence

c)

Continuity and Change

7.

To explain the order in which historical events happened

a)

Comparison

b)

Periodization

c)

Context

8.

To find and explain patterns of what changed and what stayed the same within a time period

a)

Context

b)

Continuity and Change

c)

Causation

9.

To learn by asking questions through research using primary and secondary sources.

a)

Comparison

b)

Periodization

c)

Evidence

10.

To explain how one historical event connects another historical event or time

a)

Context

b)

Continuity & Change

c)

Evidence