Lesson 1: Lunchroom Fight
All of these things apply to history: How events are interpreted, remembered, explained, and judged to be trustworthy. Studying history involves considering people’s perspectives and biases; evidence; trustworthiness. Similar to the principal, historians trying to figure out what happened in the past. handout
Lesson 2: Snapshot Autobiography
This is exactly what history is like. History is what happened in the past, just like the events in your life. Our work this year is to figure out how we can gather enough evidence to get the clearest picture possible of what happened in the past. handout
Lesson 3: Evaluating Sources
The key takeaway from this activity is that historical understanding is intertextual. Though students are asked to choose one source over the other in this lesson, they would ultimately need to corroborate their sources with additional evidence in order to adequately answer these historical questions. handout