Learning Goal(s): Understand how historians - PowerPoint Presentation

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Learning Goal(s):

Understand how historians

evaluate

sources of information.

Evidence of Learning:

Use the 3C’s method to evaluate several sources of information.

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You can’t just believe everything you read!Slide4

Historians investigate historical questions by employing the following reading strategies...

Sourcing

Contextualizing

Corroborating

Close ReadingSlide5

As you read and study historical sources, you’ll sometimes find that different

sources

(artifacts) tell a

different story

of what happened. Slide6

As you read and study historical sources, you’ll sometimes find that different

sources

tell a different story of what happened.

What the heck is

a source?Slide7

As you read and study historical sources, you’ll sometimes find that different

sources

tell a different story of what happened.

A source is

anything you can get information from that helps you answer your question

. But, some sources are better than others. Slide8

As you read and study historical sources, you’ll sometimes find that different sources tell a different story of what happened.

One example of this is the discovery of the remains, in 1996, of an ancient American, who scientists named “Kennewick Man”.Slide9

As you read and study historical sources, you’ll sometimes find that different sources tell a different story of what happened.

Historians wanted to use the remains to help them answer the question:

Where was Kennewick Man from?Slide10

As you read and study historical sources, you’ll sometimes find that different sources tell a different story of what happened.

First, an

anthropologist

looked at the skull, and determined that Kennewick Man belonged to a group of ocean hunter gatherers most similar to modern Polynesians. Slide11

As you read and study historical sources, you’ll sometimes find that different sources tell a different story of what happened.

This was very

controversial because local Native Americans wanted the government to hand over the remains

so they could be buried in traditional manner, which has deep meaning for many Native Americans. Slide12

As you read and study historical sources, you’ll sometimes find that different sources tell a different story of what happened.

In 2013, advances in DNA science allowed

geneticists

to re-examine the remains by testing the DNA. These scientists concluded that, based on DNA evidence, Kennewick Man was actually most closely related to the Colville People, a Native American tribe of Northeast WashingtonSlide13

As you read and study historical sources, you’ll sometimes find that different sources tell a different story of what happened.

The

anthropologist

and the

geneticists

couldn’t both be correct. It’s up to historians to determine which

source

is more reliable. Slide14

As you read and study historical sources, you’ll sometimes find that different sources tell a different story of what happened.

In this case, because Genetics has proven to be a far more accurate method of determining

ancestry

, historians must choose the DNA evidence as the best source. Kennewick Man was a forefather of local Native Americans.Slide15

In this course, most of the sources that you will be asked to analyze are going to be written sources called

Documentary Evidence.

Primary Source

Secondary

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Primary Source -

Original documents written by an eyewitness to a person, place or event.

Autobiography

Original Documents (or direct copies)

Photograph

Audio or Video recording

Eyewitness Testimony

These are usually the most reliable sources.Slide17

Secondary Source -

A source that was produced later, by someone who did not personally participate in or witness the person, place or event.

These are less reliable than primary sources. Slide18

After figuring out the type of source you're looking at, a historian then has to follow the

Three C’s:

Context

Close Read

Corroboration

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Secondary Source - A source that was produced later, by someone who did not personally witness the event. Slide20

Context -

What was happening around the source?

Close Read -

What exactly is the source telling me?

Corroboration -

Can other sources be found that match what this source is telling me?Slide21

Lunchroom Fight:

When Indie was young he got into a fight with another student at his school. There were several people interviewed by the Principal, and each had a different story to tell…

Indiana Jones

Biff Tannen

Eric (Biff’s good friend)

Marion (Indiana’s girlfriend)

Anthony (Bystander)

Cafeteria Worker

Jamie (Classmate of Indiana and Biff)

Ms. Frizzle (English Teacher)

Let’s practice evaluating sources using the

Three C’s

. I’m going to tell you a story about a fight I got into when I was in middle school. Unfortunately, not everyone agrees about what happened. It’s up to you to decide what really happened. Slide22

Lunchroom Fight:

When Indie was young he got into a fight with another student at his school. There were several people interviewed by the Principal, and each had a different story to tell…

Indiana Jones

Biff Tannen

Eric (Biff’s good friend)

Marion (Indie’s girlfriend)

Anthony (Bystander)

John - (Cafeteria Worker)

Jamie (Classmate of Indiana and Biff)

Ms. Frizzle (Teacher)Slide23

Directions:

As a group (Small Groups), read each source.

Fill in the

3C’s Evidence Chart

Fill in the

Principal's Report