Lesson 1

• Historical Thinking


  Reading, analysis and writing that is necessary to tell the stories, it is not we know of the past but its how we know it
• The past is very hard to retrieve
• Historical Thinking


  Helps us get closer to that past to retrieve and construct a more accurate picture of what happened and what it meant
• In history telling is not all about what we know in the past but how we know it
• Aspects of Historical Thinking

  • Multiple Accounts and Perspectives
  • Analysis of Primary Sources
  • Sourcing
  • Understanding Historical Context
  • Claim Evidence Connection
• Multiple Accounts and Perspectives


  • No single account written from one perspective captures the complexity of the past
  • Collective and multiple accurate sources to learn to analyze and synthesize data
• Analysis of Primary Sources

  • Original documents and objects created at the time under study are vital to reconstructing the past
  • Learning how to read, question, contextualize and analyze these sources as they can tell different stories about the same event
• MARITES is different from being a Historian
• MARITES


  Master of Arts in Relying Information Through Exaggerated Storytelling
• Sourcing


  • Identifying and asking questions about the origin of the source, about the Author's purposes and perspective, When the source was created and for whom, about its trustworthiness
• Understanding Historical Context


  • Context is at the center of Historical reasoning
  • Locating events and sources in time and space and asking questions to do so
  • Understanding the people involved in the story, to whom it is addressed, its main purpose and intent
• Claim Evidence Connection


  • Historical stories must be supported by evidence
  • Determining the facts and the fakes, as history is not fiction and the stories cannot be changed to create more intriguing or sources of fun to satisfy the reader
  • Truth claims in history need to be supported by evidence
• Other aspects of Historical Thinking include Causation, Significance and Change over time, and Reading strategies like Collaboration
• These aspects of Historical Thinking are vital to help students become better readers, thinkers and good citizens