Touchstone 4: Thinking Like a Historian

Part 1: Change Over Time

Write down your selected topic and time period.

Identify and describe something within your topic that changed over the selected time period, using specific historical evidence. (5-6 sentences)

Identify and describe something within your topic that stayed the same over the selected time period, using specific historical evidence. (5-6 sentences)

Part 2: Context, Causality, and Contingency

Write down the title of the primary source you selected and paste the weblink here

Describe what is happening in the source. (5-6 sentences)

Describe two other things happening in the United States during the topic or event depicted by your source that are related to it. (5-6 sentences)

Describe two things that happened in an earlier time period that led to what is depicted in your source. Explain the cause/effect relationship. (5-6 sentences)

Describe two things that happened in a later time period as a result of what is depicted in your source. Explain the cause/effect relationship. (5-6 sentences)

Part 3: Complexity and Reflection

Were you able to think of more than two things that led to or resulted from the topic or event depicted in your source? How did you choose which things to write about? (5-6 sentences)

How can you apply these skills of historical thinking to your daily life? (5-6 sentences)