8th grade Unit 1 2024

Material evidence from the past

• Artifact

• Perspective

• Region

• Sociocultural

Facts or information that can be used to test whether a belief is true or not.

• Evidence

• Contextualizing

• Sourcing

• Economic

The process of determining what happened that involves posing questions and collecting and analyzing sources to build historical interpretations.

• Historical Inquiry

• Contextualizing

• Magna Carta

• Social Contract

Specific way in which historians critically read a document, including sourcing, contextualizing, closely reading and corroborating.

• Historical Ready Skills

• Historical Inquiry

• Historical Consideration

• Iroquois Confederacy

Attempting to identify the origin of a particular historical account by identifying who, why, where, and when it was created.

• Sourcing

• Contextualizing

• Corroborating

• Historical Account

Placing an idea, statement, or event into the time and / or place it was created.

• Contextualizing

• Sourcing

• Historical Inquiry

• Natural Rights

A thoughtful, critical analysis of a text that focuses on significant details or patterns in order to uncover layers of meaning that lead to deep comprehension.

• Close Reading

• Perspective

• Historical Account

• Contextualizing.

The use of additional sources to determine the extent to which they support each other.

• Corroborating

• Close Reading

• Historical Inquiry

• Sourcing

A report, description, or story of an event from the past that is put together using evidence from multiple sources.

• Historical Account

• Perspective

• Historical Reading

• Contextualizing

A particular attitude or way of regarding or seeing something.

• Perspective

• Corroborating

• Evidence

• Historical Inquiry