Week 1: Historical Thinking Skills
Assessment
Friday: Skills Assessment
Demonstrate your mastery of all five historical thinking skills through a comprehensive assessment.
Lesson Details
Time
60 min
Activities
14 items
Reading
13 sections
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Essential Question
Can you apply all five historical thinking skills to analyze sources you have never seen before?
Learning Objectives
By the end of this assessment, you will demonstrate your ability to:
• Apply sourcing questions to identify author, purpose, and potential bias
• Use contextualization to understand how historical setting shapes sources
• Perform close reading to analyze language, tone, and omissions
• Corroborate sources by comparing multiple perspectives
• Identify cause-and-effect relationships in history