WorksheetsThinking Like a Historian: Sources
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Original records produced by the people who participated in and witnessed the past.
Primary Source
Secondary Source
Documents, texts, images, and objects about an event created by someone who was not present at the time of the event.
Primary Source
Secondary Source
An autobiography is a _____________.
Secondary
Primary
Tertiary
Lie
Secondary sources are better than primary sources?
True
False
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.
Your textbook is an example of a
primary source
secondary source
artifact
What is an inference?
an artifact, a document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, a recording, or other source that was created at the time of study
created later by someone who did not experience first-hand or participate in the events researched
prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair
an educated guess based on evidence & prior knowledge
If students are able to:
Identify the author’s position on the historical event
• Identify and evaluate the author’s purpose in producing the document
• Hypothesize what the author will say before reading the document
• Evaluate the source’s trustworthiness by considering genre, audience, and purpose
Contextualization
Sourcing
Corroboration
Close Reading
A 2015 Broadway musical depicting the life of Alexander Hamilton, one of the founding fathers of the United States
Primary
Secondary
The Parisian Life, an 1892 painting by Juan Luna.
Primary
Secondary
A YouTube video describing how the pyramids were built
Primary
Secondary
Letters
Primary Source
Secondary Source
Cave painting and carvings
Primary Source
Secondary Source
biographies
Primary Source
Secondary Source
Artifacts
Primary Source
Secondary Source
What is the definition of perspective?
Point of View
To verify
Partially true
Primary Source
A primary source is ALWAYS more reliable than a secondary source.
True
False
What skill are we using when we ask this question: How much do we trust the source?
Corroboration
Reliability
Evidence
Sourcing
