Vocabulary
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What is history?
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History
A continuous, systematic narrative of past events as relating to a particular people, country, period, person, etc., usually written as a chronological account.
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What year was Okinawa Christian School founded?
1957
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a continuous, systematic narrative of past events as relating to a particular people, country, period, person, etc., usually written as a chronological account
What is history?
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To read primary sources effectively requires you to
use your historical imagination along with your research skills.
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What two things will studying history allow us to understand?
People and Societies
Change and How the Society We Live in Came to Be
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Historically significant
An important and notable event/person, Brings change, Tells us about the time period, It is remembered today, Affects the future
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Sugarloaf hill, Okinawa
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What two types of sources do historians use for evidence?
Primary and secondary
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"A-L-F-E-R"
Author and Audience
Logic
Frame of reference
Evaluating Truth Content
Relation to Other Sources
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Essentially, history is important because...
...it connects our stories with those that lived long ago.
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Context
the situation within which something exists or happens, and that can help explain it
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Augustus Caesar
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"C-E-R"
Claim, evidence and reasoning
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“STARM”
Structure
Thesis
Argument
Resources
Motives
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History teaches by examples and allows us to do what?
provides a terrain for thinking about morality
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Claim
Statements that can become a thesis.
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When reading historical documents, what are the four ways we should read?
1. Reading for Origins and Context
2. Reading for meaning
3. Reading for Argument
4. Reading Like a Historian
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Good historical writing includes...
Clear argument
Logical and persuasive arguments
Something new
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What is the acronym for "How to Read a Secondary Source?"
S-T-A-R-M
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What Skills Does a Student of History Develop?
a. The Ability to Assess Evidence.
b. The Ability to Assess Conflicting Interpretations
c. Experience in Assessing Past Examples of Change
d. It provides basic factual information about the background of our political institutions and about the values and problems that affect our social well-being. It also contributes to our capacity to use evidence, assess interpretations, and analyze change…
e. History is useful for work
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Reasoning
the process of thinking about something in order to make a decision
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Remember the Khan Academy video on "Thinking Like a Historian?" What are the three aspects of thinking and telling history?
Story telling, Scientific investigation and Law(yer)
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Primary sources are produced usually by...
a participant or observer at the time an event or development took place.
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What is "bias?"
...an inclination or outlook to present or hold a partial perspective, often accompanied by a refusal to consider the possible merits of alternative points of view.
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Cleopatra Was Not Egyptian. What was her nationality?
Greek. She was a descendant of Alexander the Great's Macedonian general Ptolemy.