Bellwork

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Bellwork

• Vocabulary Card
• On the blank side of an index card
• Write V1 in the upper right corner
• Write reliable near the center of the card
• Leave room for an illustration
• On the lined side of the card, write able to be
  trusted likely to be true or correct
• Keep your vocabulary cards neatly stored together
  with either a rubber band, box, envelope, etc.

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QA

• Cognitive Notebook cover page?
• Authors page?
• Table of Contents?
• Numbering pages?

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Historical Thinking Skills

• Create a Title Page for this Unit
• Start with a blank sheet of loose leaf paper
• Title at the top center Historical Thinking
  Skills
• Write the page number in the upper right corner
  11
• By Friday, your cover page should be colorfully
  illustrated. It may be one large illustration or
  a collection of smaller illustrations. All
  illustrations must be relevant to the unit
• Number pages 12 13 (upper outside corners)
• Table of Contents
• Page 11, Historical Thinking Skills Cover Page
• page 12, Lunchroom Fight

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Lunchroom Fight

• What makes a story trustworthy?

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Scenario

• You are the principal of a school and you just
  found out that there was a fight in the cafeteria
  during lunch.
• Youve asked many students and teachers who
  witnessed the fight to write down what they saw
  and who they think started the fight.
• Many of the stories disagree about important
  details
• Who started it
• When it started
• Who was involved
• NO ONE is lying!

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Cornell notes (p. 13)
Lunchroom Fight Lunchroom Fight
Question Response
How can there be different stories is no one is lying?
Who are the different people who might have seen this fight?
What makes one persons story more believable than another persons?
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Check for Understanding

• Why might people see or remember things
  differently?
• Who has an interest in one person getting in
  trouble instead of another?
• Do stories change over time? How does that affect
  trustworthiness?
• Of all the people who could have possible seen
  this fight, who do you think would be the most
  reliable? Why?

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Sourcing

• The principal needs to consider which stories are
  more or less reliable because its important to
  understand why the fight began.
• It important that the instigator (if there was
  one) be punished
• its important to think about how to prevent such
  fights in the future.
• Historians, in trying to figure out what happened
  in the past, essentially engage in the same work.
  
• there is no way to actually recreate the moment
  or time-travel to witness it.
• All that historians have to work with is the
  remaining evidence (i.e. who shot JFK?
  Burr/Hamilton duel? Why did the Civil War start?)
  ranging from peoples stories to physical
  artifacts.
• Sourcing is the act of questioning a piece of
  evidence and trying to determine if it is
  trustworthy.
• When you source, you ask how peoples biases or
  perspectives change their stories (i.e. a
  Northerner during the Civil War vs. a Southerner
  during the Civil War).
• This doesnt necessarily mean a person is lying
  if he or she comes from a particular perspective
  (Youll find that many of the truths we cling to
  depend greatly on our own point of view. Obi
  Wan Kenobi)
• They still might have something valuable to
  contribute to your understanding of what happened
  in the past. But as a reader it is important to
  keep in mind that each person sees the world in a
  particular way. When you keep that in mind,
  youre sourcing.

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Illustration (p. 12)

• Create an illustration (or set of illustrations)
  that represent the concepts that we covered
  today.
• Your illustration(s) must
• take up the majority of the page
• Be neat
• Be colorful

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Ticket Out the Door

• On the blank side of an index card
• Write T1 in the upper right corner
• Write SA in the upper left corner (means short
  answer)
• Write this question What is sourcing?
• Write your answer on the lined side
• Keep your Tickets Out the Door neatly stored
  together with either a rubber band, box,
  envelope, etc.