Historical Thinking Skills Quiz

A story your grandfather told you about his experiences in the Korean War.

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

A letter written by George Washington to his mother about the latest developments in the Revolutionary War

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

The Diary of Anne Frank  - the published diary of a teenage girl who experiences the Holocaust first hand

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

Your US History textbook or an encyclopedia.

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

A photograph of you and your friends at your 8th birthday party.

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

The information from the museum tour guide who shows you around the exhibit and shares facts with you.  

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

Mary is preparing to analyze Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.  BEFORE she reads the document, Mary looks at information about Martin Luther King, considers who the audience of the speech was intended to be, and what the purpose of giving the speech was.   

Mary is thinking like a historian because she is demonstrating the skill of…

• Corroborating

• Contextualizing

• Close Reading

• Sourcing

Karl has begun to research the way women in the United States fought for the right to vote. In order to make the best inference possible, he looks at a copy of the Declaration of Sentiments written by women in the mid 1800’s, photographs taken of women protesting for the right to vote in 1915, as well as a diary entry from Lucy Stone, a famous suffragette.  He then compares the sources to see where they agree and disagree.

Which of the following is Karl doing?

• Corroborating

• Close Reading

• Contextualizing

• Sourcing

Sara is trying to figure out why the Black Plague spread so quickly throughout Europe.  In order to get a better picture of the reasons why, Sara decides to see what happened right before the breakout of the plague, as well as looking at a map of trade routes throughout medieval Europe and Asia.

Sara is participating in which step of historical thinking?

• Corroborating

• Contextualizing

• Close Reading

• Sourcing