Reading History

1
Reading History

• Goals
• Here you will learn how to read history, use the
  strategy of note-taking, see the way history
  textbooks ar often organized

2
Set a Purpose

• Key to setting a purpose for reading history is
  to ask questions about what you want to know.
• - What were the Indian Wars?
• - When did they take place?
• - Who was involved?
• - Where did they take place?
• - Why did they occur

3
Preview

• Next, run your eyes over the next several pages
  from an American history textbook.
• Look for the following items as you preview
  Indian Wars.
• the title and any section guides or goal
• boxes.
• the first and last paragraphs
• the headings
• any names, dates, words, or terms set in
  boldface or that are repeated
• any photos, diagrams, or pictures, and their
  captions.

4
Plan

• Take a minute to think about what you learned in
  your preview
• A number of different kinds of Indians were
  involved (Southwest, Nez Perce, Blackfoot,
  Sioux).
• Several different chiefs were important (Crazy
  Horse, Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph,
  Geronimo).
• The Indians Lost A Way of Life Destroyed.

5
Plan Continued

• Most of this information comes from the headings.
  Notice how little you actually have to read and
  how much the headings alone can tell you.
• You learned a lot through your preview.
• Next you need to make a plan to get the details
  that you need to meet your reading purpose.
• Be sure that the time you spend reading gives you
  the information to answer the 5 W questions
  who,what, where, when, and why.