Is a map a Primary Source
YES
Photo or Documentary
Documentary
Causation
Cause and Effect
What does R stand for?
Restate
Causation signal words
This, then, that
Because of this then this
As a result
Consequently
Diary or Textbook
Diary
T/F A textbook passage about the Revolutionary War
True
Comparison
Compare and contrast
What does A stand for?
Answer
Comparison signal words
Verses
Difference between this or that
Same as this or that
Article or Letters
Letters
Is an essay a secondary source?
YES
Continuity and Change
what stays the same and what changes
What does C stand for?
Cite
Continuity and Change signal words
This stays the same
This changes
Biography Or Autobiography
Autobiography
Is a photo a secondary source?
NO
Contextualization
Understanding something within the time period that it occurs
What does E stand for?
Explain
Contextualization Signal words
Background
necessary information
when/where something takes place
What is a Primary Source?
Primary sources are ORIGINAL sources that are written by someone who experienced an event themselves. They saw what happened with their own eyes.
What is a Secondary Source?
Documents written by people who are studying the event, but were not part of it.
Define all 4 historical thinking words at once?
1. Causation: cause and effect
2. Comparison: Compare and contrast
3. Continuity and Change: what stays the same and what changes
4. Contextualization: Understanding something within the time period that it occurs
If you do not have a source to cite (paragraph or primary source) what do you cite instead?
Hint: These questions are more personal and opinionated
An experience of your own
What is an example of Comparison? (flip)
Because I didnt study for my exam, then I might not pass it.
When looking at two events what is happening during the Holocaust Verses the Battle of the Alamo.