What Is History Vocabulary

Question 1

The account of the past. Based on 1’s perspective. Rely on evidence and construct accounts of the past. Is the question reliability to each piece of evidence. 1 piece of evidence is not sufficient enough to build plausible account.

Answer 1

History

Question 2

What claims does the author make? What sources does the author use? What kind of language does the author persuade the document’s audience.

Answer 2

Close Read

Question 3

Who’s the author? What is the author’s perspective? Why was it written? Where was it written? Is it reliable? Why? Why not?

Answer 3

Sourcing

Question 4

Where was the document created? What was different back then? What is the same now? How might circumstances in which the document affects the content?

Answer 4

Contextualization

Question 5

What do other documents say? Do they agree with this one? If not, then why? Any other documents? Which document is most reliable?

Answer 5

Corroboration