History Unit ReviewNotes
Include:
• 4 types of history
• Timeline
• Primary/Secondary Evidence +/• Historical Method Steps and description
• Thesis statement description
• Key Terms (not on PP but in notes)
What is History?
National
Global
State/
Local
Personal/
Family
A timeline helps us establish chronological
order, the order in which events occur.
Daily Agenda 9/5
Bellwork: Display Name Tent. Open a notebook or a loose
leaf piece of paper and put the date in the upper right
hand corner
Agenda:
1. Review “Timeline Worksheet”
2. Key Term boxes
Cause and Effect- A sequence of events, in which one
event or person is responsible for another event or
events happening
3. History Detectives Episode
Bellwork 9/9/14
Get out key term boxes and record the following key terms
Evidence- any document or physical object important to studying past events
Primary Evidence- Primary Source is a document or physical object which was
written or created during the time period of study.
Secondary Evidence- A secondary source interprets and analyzes primary sources.
These sources are one or more steps removed from the event. Secondary sources
may have pictures, quotes or graphics of primary sources in them.
Agenda:
Key Terms
Historical Method
Homework
Historical Method:
5 step process historians use to write history
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Preliminary Research
Formulating a working hypothesis
Research evidence to support/reject hypothesis
Formulate a thesis statement
Writing a historical account
Historical Method:
5 step process historians use to write history
1.
Preliminary Research- The first step of the
Historical Method is to decide which issue to study
and conduct research for evidence to provide
information about what happened.
Historical Method:
5 step process historians use to write history
1.
Preliminary Research
Questions to ask during this step:
1.
Where would I go to research this?
1.
5 W’s (who, what where, why, when)
Historical Method:
5 step process historians use to write history
2. Formulating a working hypothesis
-Based on the preliminary research a tentative hypothesis is created
on what one may believe happened.
Ex. This is a map of Washington’s encampment at Valley Forge
Historical Method:
5 step process historians use to write history
3. Research for evidence to support or reject
the working hypothesis.
-Continue to study primary documents. While examining these
sources the historian must ask questions about the event and the
evidence
Is it primary/secondary
Chronological order to examine cause/effect
Is it authentic?
Is it reliable?
Found in
Is it objective/subjective
Reading 4
Does it Corroborate?
Does it support/refute?
Historical Method:
5 step process historians use to write history
What category of evidence am I finding?
-Primary Source is a document or physical object which was written
or created during the time period of study.
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ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS
Diaries
speeches
manuscripts
letters
interviews
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news film footage
autobiographies
official records
CREATIVE WORKS: Poetry,
drama, novels, music, art
• RELICS OR ARTIFACTS:
Pottery, furniture, clothing,
buildings
Historical Method:
5 step process historians use to write history
What category of evidence am I finding?
-Primary
-Secondary
A secondary source interprets and analyzes primary sources. These sources
are one or more steps removed from the event. Secondary sources may have
pictures, quotes or graphics of primary sources in them.
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Textbooks
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magazine articles
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Histories
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Commentaries
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encyclopedias
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Internet
Historical Method:
5 step process historians use to write history
4. Formulate a thesis statement
-Once the evidence has been carefully examined then the
hypothesis can now become a thesis statement.
This map was created by a French Engineer, docketed by Louis
DuPortail, and used early on at Valley Forge as a working
fortification map.
Historical Method:
5 step process historians use to write history
5. Writing a historical account
The essay usually begins with the thesis statement and
followed by the evidence.
Daily Agenda 9/10
(continued)
Primary
Ad.
Secondary
Ad.
Mood/Flavor/Emotion
Dis.
Combines primary for
big picture
Dis.
Small piece of the story
Interpreted and open
to being subjective
A strong thesis statement…
 is one sentence that introduces your audience to
the Historical Account.
 is arguable. Your audience might agree or disagree.
 includes evidence you will use later in the essay.
 Is specific with details, words, and names.