Vocabulary
Historical Surprise
Historical Evidence
Cause & Consequence
Historical Perspective
100
Particular attitude or way of regarding or seeing something.
What is Perspective (Point of View)
100
Hollywood movies are usually this type of source
What is Secondary Sources
100
Signs from the past used to interpret how people lived
What is Traces
100
What factors influence ones perspective? Be specific with examples
What is Age, Gender, Social Status, Religion
100
Consider the time and place, paying close attention to when something happened and where. What else was happening at this time? What happened before and after this moment? What does it matter where it took place?
What is Historical Context
200
Making an educated guess based on information given
What is Inference
200
Numerous people being affected by an event
Scope of Impact
200
Diary of a soldier written in WWII
What is Primary source
200
The consequences of 9/11 were deeply felt
What is Depth of Impact
200
Teacher will decide if answer is correct if not another team can steal
300
A standard by which you can make a judgment or decision
What is Criteria
300
"History is a conversation with the past"
Teacher decides if the teams answer is explained well, if not another team may steal.
300
In order to objective you need
What is Criteria
300
A sudden change in events
What is Turning Point
300
Only noticing evidence that supports our beliefs, and ignoring evidence that doesn’t support our beliefs.
Confirmation Bias
400
Believing the thoughts, feelings and attitudes of people or groups in the past were the same as our thoughts today
Presentism
400
Aspects of the past that have remained the same over time
What is Continuity
400
Facts or information that can be used to test whether a belief or proposition is true.
What is Evidence
400
Explain the cause and consequence in this image.
Teacher will determine if answer is correct, if not another team can answer.
400
This is an example of:
What is Different Perspective (Multiple perspective)
500
Prejudice that leads to unfair or unreasonable conclusions
Bias
500
“The most effective way to destroy people is to make them forget their own understanding of their history"
Teacher decides if the answer is correct if not another team can steal
500
What is the potential danger of Historians having personal perspectives?
Their understandings of the past may be coloured/ shaped by their current views and may not be objective views
500
Why was the Great Wall of China initially established?
To prevent Northern invaders from entering and conquering China
500
A way of examining the past and coming to understanding it. It has several interconnected and overlapping parts.
Historical Thinking