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Guided Reading
What Does a Historian Do?
Lesson 1 What Is History?
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
Why is history important?
Why Study History?
1. Listing List some of the questions historians ask about
the past.
2. Explaining Explain what people learn from studying
the past.
Measuring Time
3. Listing List the ways historians label time.
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Guided Reading Cont.
What Does a Historian Do?
4. Comparing and Contrasting Complete the Venn diagram
with information about the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
Write details about each calendar in its own circle. Write
details that the calendars share, in the section where the
circles overlap.
Julian
Calendar
Both
Calendars
Gregorian
Calendar
5. Defining Explain what the letters A.D. and B.C. mean on
the Gregorian calendar and when they are used.
6. Explaining What does a time line do?
Digging Up the Past
7. Describing Write a sentence that describes what each of
the following people do.
archaeologist
paleontologist
anthropologist
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