To demonstrate their ability to use evidence in the study of history, students should:
● compare various types of sources to be used in a historical study.
● engage in historical thinking skills to collect evidence from various sources that identifies bias, context, tone, purpose, and periodization.
● evaluate secondary sources for accuracy and validity.
● examine multiple points of view to construct a historical argument.
● corroborate multiple sources.
Starter:
🎯Please answer the following question.
If you walk past someone’s house and you hear machine gun fire, what inferences could you make? (After you dive to the ground and say a prayer).
-If you do not know the context, WHAT IS GOING ON AT THE TIME, then you may make faulty inferences.
3. Students will dicuss contextualization
-students will examine different articles to see how time and place can help determine content.