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WorksheetsWhy Study History?
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
When you study history, you start to see patterns in human behavior.
True
False
The skill of being able to identify and explain events or concepts throughout history is called this.
Contextualization
Developments & Processing
Sourcing
Corroboration
To study history - you must start with this.
A sentence
A war
A question
A solution
What is the information that can be used to prove your statement or to support a conclusion?
Opinions
Ideas
Questions
Evidence
A document or other records of past events created by people who were present at that time are called this -
Primary Source
Secondary Source
This type of source was written after the time period by an expert or a historian.
Primary Source
Secondary Source
What's another way of saying that after researching your evidence, you've come to a conclusion? What is this conclusion called?
Sourcing
Opinion
Evidence
Inference
What historical skills takes into account the author’s point of view, or way of looking at something may be shaped by many things, such as the person’s age, religion, job or political views.
Contextualization
Sourcing
Corroboration
Argumentation
This term refers to anything that might change a person’s observations.
Source
Context
Bias
Artifact
This term refers to information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
Source
Propaganda
Context
Evidence
Comparing information from different sources is called ____________________.
Analysis
Corroboration
Contextualization
Close Reading
Chronology refers to -
Looking at events in context
Asking questions about the source
Sequencing events in time
Close reading information
History is still open to interpretation.
True
False
This term refers to the setting of an event. Knowing the setting or the time and place help us understand how these factors shape its content.
Source
Argument
Context
Interpretation
What does it mean to evaluate a source? Evaluate.
get rid of the source
to judge the quality of or assess the source
don't ask questions about the source
to summarize the main ideas
Inquiry is -
the act of discovery
the act of asking a question
the act of dancing
the act of summarizing
