HISTORICAL THINKING SKILLS

Question 1

What is the purpose of historical thinking?

Answer 1

Enables the readers to be critical thinkers without having to memorize facts (dates, places, etc.)

Question 2

What are the different historical thinking skills?

Answer 2

Sourcing, contextualization, close reading, corroberation

Question 3

What is sourcing?

Answer 3

• Identify the author’s position (in history) and purpose in writing the text.
• You must also predict what the author will say before reading the text.
• check believability/trustworthiness (through genre, audience, and purpose)

Question 4

What is contextualization?

Answer 4

• Use of context, background information, and historical context to better understand the text
• understand words in a larger context

Question 5

What is close reading?

Answer 5

• Identify author’s claims in the texts
• words are always used deliberately

Question 6

What is corroboration?

Answer 6

establish what is true by comparing documents and find their differences