Class in Review:
This week we are focused on getting to know what history is, and how it is researched and presented. Students this week will discuss what exactly is history, how we know what happened in the past, and what the job of a historian is. In class, we will discuss these questions, and outside of class students will have writing prompts asking them to answer these questions.
As we close out the week, students will be assigned activities asking them to use what they have learned about evaluating sources of information. The first is a quick source evaluation on Google Classroom, where students will be asked to decide which of two sources would be most reliable to answer a historic question. If they can not access Google Classroom to complete it, I have provided a PDF copy of the activity below. The second assignment comes in two parts, where students will be asked to investigate a lunchroom fight, going through witness statements, to determine who started it. This activity will ask students to evaluate source reliability, think of the context, and try and corroborate stories. The PDFs of these activities are also below.
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