Historical Thinking Skills

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Reliable

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How trustworthy or useful a source is for answering a question or learning about a topic.

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Perspective

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The way someone sees or understands an event.

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Reasoning

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Explaining how your evidence proves your claim.

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Evidence

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The clues or facts that support your claim.

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Claim

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A statement or answer that you give about a question.

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Close Reading

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Looking carefully at what a source says and how it says it.

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Contextualization

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Looking at the background information around an event to better understand it.

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Sourcing

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Asking questions about where the source came from.

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Bias

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When information is one-sided, unfair, or shows only one point of view.

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Corroboration

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Checking different sources to see if they agree