Primary sources offer firsthand accounts of an event or topic while secondary sources are retellings of accounts.
Historians study the past to help answer questions about the present.
Current events should help shape the question that historians ask in their research.
This allows history to help us understand our current problems and ways we might solve them.
* _______________ offer firsthand accounts of an event or topic while ______________ are retellings of accounts. (U2L2 page 2)
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Benefits of using both when studying a historical event is they give a more complete understanding of the past.
* _________ – feeling or action that favors one viewpoint over another. Historians use biased documents to understand an author’s beliefs and get a feel for the main ideas of the time.
* ____________________– details that surround a particular event. (Background details that explain what other things were going on at the time of the historical event)
* Author’s ___________________ – set of assumptions or criteria by which a person or group judges ideas, actions and experiences. (a set of ideas, conditions, or assumptions that determine how something will be approached, perceived or understood) (U2L4 page 1)
* _________ – feeling or action that favors one viewpoint over another. Historians use biased documents to understand an author’s beliefs and get a feel for the main ideas of the time.
* ____________________– details that surround a particular event. (Background details that explain what other things were going on at the time of the historical event)
* Author’s ___________________ – set of assumptions or criteria by which a person or group judges ideas, actions and experiences. (a set of ideas, conditions, or assumptions that determine how something will be approached, perceived or understood) (U2L4 page 1)
- Bias – feeling or action that favors one viewpoint over another. Historians use biased documents to understand an author's beliefs and get a feel for the main ideas of the time.
- Context – details that surround a particular event. (Background details that explain what other things were going on at the time of the historical event)
- Author’s perspective – set of assumptions or criteria by which a person or group judges ideas, actions, and experiences. (a set of ideas, conditions, or assumptions that determine how something will be approached, perceived, or understood)