Thinking Like a Historian

What is history?

• An account of the past constructed from opinions.
• an account of the past constructed from evidence.
• is all about perspective.
• someone who studies the past.

What is perspective?

• Someone who studies art.
• Facts about a topic.
• Someone's evidence on something.
• Someone's point of view on something.

True or False:
A primary source is a document created after the time period being studied.

• True
• False

True or False:
A primary source is a document or physical object that was written or created by someone during the time period being studied.

• True
• False

Primary or Secondary?
-A journal entry written by Christopher Columbus describing his voyages.

• Primary
• Secondary

Primary or Secondary?
-A textbook chapter about WWI written in 2016.

• Primary
• Secondary

Primary or Secondary?
-A newspaper article about the start of WWII, written the day after it started.

• Primary
• Secondary

When historians evaluate sources, they engage in three practices.  Which one is not a practice?

• Sourcing
• Annotating
• Perspective
• Close Reading

When you close read, you look for a ___________ and ___________.

• claim and perspective
• perspective and evidence
• claim and evidence
• analysis and evidence

the usefulness of information in a source for a given purpose

• reliability

• bias

• limitation

• sourcing