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In History class, we use primary & secondary sources, documents, texts, videos, maps, current events, and websites as our sources for Social Studies content.
To understand many sides of historical events, we will read and look for bias within primary sources, evaluate the trustworthiness of the sources, gather evidence to support an argument, and argue our points of view through debating and writing.
Historical thinking
Historical thinking
“Studying history teaches that society is not stagnant. Studying history teaches us to question how and why things change, who drives those changes, whose interests are served by them and who gets left out of the equation. History teaches that human actions have consequences.” [Jason Steinhauer - Public Historian at The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.]
“Analyzing historic documents teaches us to be careful readers. To be skeptical of one side of the story. To be aware of our own biases. Most critically, history teaches us who we are.” [Jason Steinhauer - Public Historian at The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.]
When we analyze past events, it teaches us to ask questions, challenge preconceived ideas, and to recognize that humans have the ability to be both very, very cruel and very, very good.
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