Historical Thinking Skills

Which of the following best describes the process of contextualization?

• Answering Who, What, Where, and When
• Determining when and where the document was created 
• Indicating the author's perspective, evidence, claims, and language
• Cross-checking other sources of information

Which term means point of view?

• values
• opinion
• perspective
• fact

Written at the time of the event

• primary source
• secondary source

Which historical thinking skill do the following questions most closely relate to:

Who created it? From what perspective or point of view? When was it written? Why was it written? Is it reliable?

• Contextualization

• Corroboration

• Sourcing

The following questions represent which Historical Thinking skill?

What do other documents say? Do the documents agree? If not, why? What are other possible documents? What documents are most reliable?

• Contextualization

• Corroboration

• Close Reading

• Sourcing

This term means: one-sided; unfair favoritism

• evaluate
• accuracy
• perspective
• bias

to put things in the order in which they happened

• composition order

• contextual order

• chronological order

• perspective

What is a primary source?

• Identify the author and the author’s purpose (before you read a document to determine if the source is trustworthy and believable).

• Evaluate language and evidence throughout a document to support the author’s claims

• a serious disagreement or argument dispute, quarrel, squabble, disagreement, dissension, clash

• descriptions or pictures of an event by someone who actually saw or lived through that event (diary or journal entry; photograph)

What is a secondary source?

• Evaluate language and evidence throughout a document to support the author’s claims.

• come from people who were not present at an event (textbook; encyclopedia)

• The act of thinking like a historian by utilizing historical thinking skills such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close reading. • sourcing: Identify the author and the author’s purpose (before you read a document to determine if the source is trustworthy and believable).

• descriptions or pictures of an event by someone who actually saw or lived through that event (diary or journal entry; photograph

What is reliability?

• an agreement or a settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making concessions. agreement, understanding, settlement, deal, trade-off, bargain

• the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid. proof, confirmation, verification, substantiation, corroboration, affirmation

• the quality of being trustworthy or of performing consistently well. dependability, sureness, trustworthiness