HISTORICAL THINKING SKILLS Flashcards
1
Q
What should you look at instead of just narrative?
A
Causes and effects
2
Q
What questions should you ask rather than just who, what, where, and when?
A
How and why?
3
Q
Define text
A
what info is provided by the source?
4
Q
Define subtext
A
Who created the source?
5
Q
Define context
A
What was going on at the time?
6
Q
Define Historical Thinking
A
Questioning events, ideas, and sources to better understand what happened.
7
Q
The four steps of conducting research
A
- Create a question you want to answer or argument you want to make
- Find historians who agree and disagree with you
- Make a conclusion
- Answer: So what?
8
Q
Define annotation
A
your interactions with the text
9
Q
When are you supposed to highlight?
A
After a paragraph/section
10
Q
3 steps before reading
A
- Preview the text
- Source the document (who wrote it, where, when, and what is their perspective?)
- Set a purpose for reading
