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WorksheetsThinking Like a Historian Vocabulary and Skills
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 25mins
____________ is the information that can prove your point or support your claim.
Chronology
Evidence
Point of view
Primary sources
What is historical thinking?
seeming reasonable or probable
the body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid
the act of thinking like a historian by utilizing historical thinking skills such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close readingt
Which historical reading skill asks these questions:
• What do other documents say?
• Do the documents agree? If not, why?
Sourcing
Contextualization
Corroboration
Close Reading
Which historical reading skill asks these questions:• What claim does the author make?• What evidence does the author provide? • What language (word choice) does the author use?
Sourcing
Contextualization
Corroboration
Close Reading
Which of the following is a key component of historical thinking when evaluating events?
Memorizing all dates and names
Understanding cause and effect relationships
Listing events in random order
Ignoring different perspectives
Which of the following is NOT a primary source?
Photographs
Artifacts
Encyclopedias
Statistics
Which of the following best describes the purpose of a timeline in historical thinking?
To list events in alphabetical order
To show the chronological order of events
To compare different historical figures
To analyze the causes of historical events
Which skill is necessary for analyzing primary sources in historical thinking?
Memorizing dates
Identifying bias and perspective
Listing historical events
Recalling historical facts
Describing the "when and where", or the historical background information needed to understand a source is called...
contextualization
argumentation
purpose
intended audience
A source's intention or "why"; what they wanted to do or have happen, can also be referred to as...
purpose
intended audience
contextualization
point of view
Why is it important to evaluate sources (look for bias), corroborate accounts, and contextualize events into the bigger picture? (I asked about three things, you should write about each)
Which document is considered a primary source
A textbook account of the great migration
A personal diary kept by Christopher Columbus
An encyclopedia about the Age of Exploration
A biography of the life of Pocahontas
Which of the following is a characteristic of a primary source?
It is a second-hand account of an event
It is created by someone who did not experience the event
It provides direct evidence about an event
It is always a published book
A source that is original to the time period or created by someone who witnessed the event is called a
primary source
secondary source
OG source
best source
Which of the following is an example of a historical thinking skill?
Writing a fictional story about the past
Comparing different historical interpretations
Listing the names of historical figures
Drawing a map of a historical battle
Who the source was directing their message to is referred to as...
intended audience
point of view
argumentation
contextualization
Which historical reading skill asks these questions:
• When and where was the document created?
• What was happening around that time?
• What was different then? What was the same?
Sourcing
Contextualization
Corroboration
Close Reading
Which historical reading skill asks these questions:
• Who wrote this?
• When was it written?
• Why was it written?
• What is the author’s perspective?
Sourcing
Contextualization
Corroboration
Close Reading
original records of a past event, usually created by someone who saw or participated in the event
secondary source
journal
diary
primary source
records of events that are written or told by someone who was not at the event
primary source
artifact
memoir
secondary source
An artifact or piece of writing that was created by someone who witnessed or lived through an event.
anthropologist
primary source
secondary source
artifact
Which of the following is a key skill in thinking like a historian?
Memorizing historical dates
Analyzing cause and effect
Listing historical events
Ignoring historical context
What does the term 'contextualization' mean in historical thinking?
Identifying the author's purpose
Understanding the time and place of an event
Comparing different historical events
Memorizing key historical figures
Which of the following best describes 'sourcing' in historical analysis?
Determining the chronological order of events
Identifying the author's perspective and purpose
Comparing different historical interpretations
Listing all known facts about an event
What is the importance of corroboration in historical thinking?
To memorize historical facts
To verify information by comparing multiple sources
To list events in chronological order
To ignore conflicting evidence
