Important Vocabulary
Claim, Evidence, & Reasoning
S.O.A.P.S-Tone
Types of Sources
Anything & Everything
Inquiry
Inquiry
100
What does it mean to support or refute something?
Support- to defend a claim
Refute- to prove a claim wrong
100
What is a claim?
A position or statement to persuade an audience using evidence from multiple sources and reasoning.
100
When looking for the subject, what are you looking for?
The main ideas of the source
100
Biography of Abraham Lincoln, Primary or Secondary?
Secondary!
100
When we look at historical perspective, why is it important to look at the views and beliefs of the time and not to impose our own values of the subject?
Opposing our own values degrades other civilizations in how they developed, maintained order, and lessens the achievements they made over time.
200
What are multiple perspectives?
the inclusion of a variety of viewpoints and fact-based, accurate sources on social and cultural issues.
Drawing from multiple viewpoints to make inform decisions/answers to supporting or compelling questions.
200
What is evidence?
Using, citing, or gathering relevant information from a primary/secondary source(s) to support a conclusion
200
When looking for the Occasion, what are you looking for?
What type of source it is (primary or secondary)
What event is the source talking about or a response to
200
Photo: Martin Luther King Jr. Speech (Primary or Secondary)
Primary
200
How can we reason about sources through our lived experiences?
Being able to connect to the things we go through helps us to understand what people went through back in the day!
300
What are Primary Sources?
First-hand accounts of historical events that have happened
300
What is reasoning?
Making connections and thinking logically about how evidence to supports our conclusions/claims.
300
Who is the Audience?
The people the author is writing to
300
Death mask of king Tut (Primary or Secondary)
Primary
300
What are direct quotes?
Word for word what is taken from a source
400
What are Secondary Sources?
Accounts that are based on first hand accounts, but they are not first hand accounts themselves!
400
Why do we need evidence and reasoning to support our claims?
In order to make our claims strong so they are not just blanket statements.
To find relevant information to support our claims and give them validity.
To explain the why factor! Taking our evidence and connecting it to WHY it supports the claims we make.
400
What is the Purpose and Why is it important?
It is what has prompted the writer to write the source
It's important because it helps us determine the message the author is trying to convey.
Are they trying to persuade, inform, or describe an event to their audience!
400
Oct 29, 1984 edition of Time Magazine (Primary or Secondary)
Secondary
Journalist analysis are primarily based on first hand events. They are not themselves the source!
400
What does it mean to paraphrase or summarize?
to put into your own word or capture the main ideas that the text is trying to convey
500
Define Inquiry.
Investigating questions to examine the facts of something that has happened in the past, present, or future!
500
What do we make claims based on?
Supporting and Compelling questions
500
Who is the Speaker of a source and why is it important?
The Author
Do determine their background knowledge on the subject they're discussing and to see if there are any biases present
500
1st amendment to the US Constitution (Primary or Secondary)
Primary!
500
What are the two ways we cite sources in Mr. Dalton's class?
1. (Source B) = in parenthesis
2. According to source A, Christopher Columbus mentions his discontent... (attribution)