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WorksheetsThinking Like a Historian
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 10mins
Every source has its own perspective and should be viewed skeptically. Each piece of evidence must be cross-checked. This is the ...
time and place rule
primary source rule
rule of the kings
bias rule
What is history? Choose the best answer and the one we discussed in our class this year!
The study of old stuff.
Everything that has happened and will happen.
An account of the past. (Somebody's perspective)
The study of a bunch of old dead guys.
Question: Who was present during the Norman Invasion?
Source 1: Hollywood movie of Norman Invasion.
Source 2: Book written by famous historian who is an expert on the Norman Invasion.
Source 1
Source 2
Neither is reliable.
Both are equally reliable.
Which example describes a primary source?
A museum timeline with reasons for the Hundred Years War.
A research article written by a Hundred Years War expert.
A letter written by a soldier during a battle of the Hundred Years Wars.
A map in a textbook showing the location of France.
The closer in time and place a source and its creator were to an event, the better the source will be. This is known as the (a) .
Which is an example of a primary source of info?
A diary
A textbook
A biography
A documentary
What type of source was the Christopher Columbus journal entry?
secondary
visual document
oral tradition
primary
How is the work of being a historian similar to being a principal who is trying to figure out who started a fight?
Neither gets paid enough.
Both usually come to the wrong conclusion.
Both have to gather many sources and cross-check for similarities.
There are no similarities.
A steward's jacket from the wreck of the Titanic would be...
a secondary source.
a great example of the bias rule.
a visual artifact.
useless to historians.
A piece of the original Declaration of Independence signed in 1776 would be a (a) source.
Why should we always look at several sources to build our account of the past?
Because of the time and place rule.
Because each source was written by a person with their own perspective.
Actually, one source is always enough.
Because our teacher said so.
_________________________, or accounts that have NOT been written down, allow you to learn about the past directly from people with firsthand knowledge.
Oral traditions
Visual documents
Musical pieces
Secondary sources,
Choose the secondary source.
An interview with Queen Elizabeth
A magazine article about living in medieval Germany
Official census records
The Magna Carta, an important document in English history
(a) documents are usually for personal records and have few copies because they are not meant to be spread or shared with a large audience.
In 1999, a writer who wrote a book about King Henry VIII (who lived in the 1400's and 1500's) created a ...
Government archive
Secondary source
Primary source
Personal journal
Choose the secondary source about the fall of the Roman Empire.
a journal kept by a Roman soldier
an encyclopedia article about Rome
a painting of the city of Rome
the diary of the Roman emperor Augustus
Question: What was the layout of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz?
Source 1: Map of the concentration camp found in Nazi files.
Source 2: Interview with 80 year-old Holocaust survivor in 1985.
Which do you trust more?
Both are equally reliable.
Neither is reliable.
Source 2
Source 1
