Lesson 2 - Thinking Like a Historian Flashcards
What do historians pay focus to when reading historical documents?
- argument
- purpose
- context
- content
- credibility
What do researchers who study the discipline of history place a high value on?
critical thinking skills
How do historians figure what happened in the past?
- understanding and evaluating change and continuity over time
- making appropriate historical evidence in answering questions
- developing coherent interpretations and arguments about how and why things happened
How do most historians read texts of all kinds?
with a particular set of questions in mind
Rather than accepting texts at face value, what do historians do?
- read between the lines and understand where a document came from
- QUALITY (how its origins affected its content)
- CREDIBILITY (whether or not it is trustworthy)
What are the four (4) other historical skills?
- Comprehension: Chronology, terms, and concepts
- Analysis and use of sources
- Research
- Explanation and Communication
organize events in the order they happened
chronology
useful way to visually represent the scope of the time, as well as the order of events
timeline
Pre-Colonial Period
Early Spanish Expeditions (1521-1565)
Colonial Period
- Spanish Era (1565-1898)
- American Period (1898-1946)
- Japanese Period (1941-1945)
Post-Colonial Period
- Third Republic Period (1946-1971)
- Fourth Republic Period (1971-1986)
- Fifth Republic Period (1986-present)
When ordering time BC, remember to count
backward from 1
When ordering time AD remember to count
forwards from 1
BC
before Christ
AD
Anno Domini
Anno Domini meaning
in the year of the Lord
Four (4) Steps of Analyzing and Using of Sources
- Identify the origin and purpose of primary and secondary sources
- Locate, compare, select, and use information from a range of sources as evidence
- Conclude the usefulness of sources
- Separating fact from opinion
It is essential for historians to understand: __ and __
origin (where they came from)
purpose (why they were created)
by this stage, historians located and collected a variety of different sources and types of information
Locate, compare, select, and use information from a range of sources as evidence
- a useful source is one that will add to your understanding of a historical inquiry
- the source needs to be relevant to the topic or question asked and must be reliable
Conclude the usefulness of sources
something that can be proven
fact
based on what a person, or persons, may believe to be true
opinion
ask a range of questions about the past to inform a historical inquiry
research
purpose is to give clear information about people, places, objects at moments in time
Writing descriptions
