Histroy Unit Test #1 Flashcards
What is history
-Study and analysis of evidence from past events that involved or effected people
Historical significance
-Decision that modern people make about what is important from our past
-Results in change
Essential Question
-Question that frames a focus of study as a problem to be solved
-Facilitates critical thinking
Defining Moment
-event/action that results in significant change for a person, country, institution
Historical Methodology
The process by which a historian formulated interpretation and constructs their view of a topic
Historiography
The writing of history based on critical examination of sources
Primary source
Evidence of history that comes from time of event
Secondary Source
-Evidence that has been written about
-Can include bias
-Based of primary evidence
What is the ORQ method used for?
analyzing primary evidence
What does the O (ORQ) mean
OBSERVE
-describe what you see
What does the Q (ORQ) mean
QUESTION
-what do you wonder, 5 Ws, etc.
What does the R (ORQ) mean
REFLECT
-hypothesis, what’s the larger story
What can we learn/take away from primary sources?
-Enhances learning of life in the past
-Make inferences about
Fact
evidence that has occurred
Inference
An interpretation concluded by reasoning or speculation
Thesis
A statement that explains how or why events happen
What are the 6 historical thinking concepts
-Primary source evidence
-Historical significance
-Continuity and change
-Cause and consequence
-Historical perspective
-Understand moral and ethical dimensions
Summary of primary source evidence
-consider period, context, events
-make inference about
-furthers our understanding of past
Summary of historical thinking
-results in change
-revealing
-varies over time
-constructed through a narrative
Summary of continuity and change
-what’s changed vs the same
-asses degree of period has changed
Summary of cause and consequence
-How does it influence the future
-short and long term causes
-what resulted from
Historical perspective
-Analyze the differences how and why people of past societies acted
-Historical context, intentions, and what influenced
What can result from historical perspective
Presentism: when we take our own ideas and apply them on people of past
Understanding moral and ethical dimensions
learn from the past that helps shape moral issues today
