Thinking Like a Historian
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Rebecca Shotliff
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The first step of Thinking Like a Historian was to look at things from multiple perspectives.
Do you remember when we looked at things from MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES?
Sandra vs. Herman
Lunchroom Fight - Justin vs. Max
Three Little Pigs vs. True Story of the Three Little Pigs
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Perspectives are a person's point of view on something (how they see something)
A perspective can be influenced by background, age, culture
One perspective might be more believable because they were there or had more details
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Multiple Choice
What does perspective mean?
A secondary source during a fight
How much a person makes
A person's point of view on something
The chance of something happening
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Multiple Choice
Which of the following infleucnes a person's perspective?
A textbook
Their background
Autograph
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Multiple Choice
What makes one perspective more believable than another's?
Their best friend told them
Nothing
They saw a video from the time
They were there or knew more details
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Step 2 of Thinking Like a Historian is to consider the sources.
Primary Sources = (FIRST-HAND) They were there during the event or the item was created then
Secondary Sources = (SECOND-HAND) They were not there during the event and gathered their information from primary sources
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Primary or Secondary: An essay written about the Civil War 100 years later.
Type answer...
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Primary or Secondary: Wikipedia which random people are able to edit.
Type answer...
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Primary or Secondary: A letter written by your best friend
Type answer...
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Primary or Secondary: A textbook about ancient civilizations
Type answer...
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Primary or Secondary: A photograph from Halloween
Type answer...
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Multiple Choice
Why is a primary source better, or more reliable, than a secondary source?
It was written or created by people who were there
I don't know
It was written or created by people who weren't there
It just is
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Step 3 of Thinking Like a Historian is creating a timeline of events.
Remember timelines always go...
BC/BCE numbers BIG to SMALL
AD/CE numbers SMALL to Big
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Multiple Choice
Why was Jesus mentioned with timelines?
It was the beginning of civilization
The world began counting years when he was born
The world began counting when he died
It was the beginning of time
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True or False: BC and AD are the same thing.
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True or False: CE and AD are the same thing.
Type answer...
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Multiple Choice
How do you find the span of the timeline?
Subtract the two small events
The end of the timeline minus the beginning of the timeline
Count how many events are on the timeline
Guess
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Multiple Choice
If your timeline starts with 0 years and ends with 10 years, what is the span?
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15
10
0
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Multiple Choice
What numbers are on the left side of your timeline?
BC/BCE
AD
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Multiple Choice
What numbers are on the right side of your timeline?
BC/BCE
AD/CE
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Multiple Choice
Which of the following is in chronological order?
2500 BCE, 2000 BC, 1000 BC, 100 AD
100 AD, 204 BC, 3495 CE, 100 BC
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Multiple Choice
Which of the following is in chronological order?
450 BC, 300 BC, 200 BC, 10 AD, 1 AD
450 BC, 300 BC, 200 BC, 1 AD, 10 AD
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Multiple Choice
Look at the following numbers: 200 BC, 35 BC, 3 AD, ??, 40 AD. Which year would fit in the ?? section
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13 AD
35 BC
400 BCE
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