1. The Nature of the Historical Discipline & Analysis The Nature of the Historical Discipline and Analysis Recognize the elements of historical context, e.g. what questions to ask to build context or what kinds of information are needed to build context. |
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Operations commonly required for this component |
Possible Assessment Examples |
a. Describe the interpretive nature of the historical discipline and apply this understanding in his or her work. |
a. Give students one set of historical facts. Have students explain how the facts might lend themselves to two different interpretations. (For a detailed example, see Appendix 1) |
b. Discriminate between broad themes, interpretations and opinions in texts and distinguish facts from interpretations. |
b. Give students a "word dump," a list of factual statements and interpretive statements and have the students sort them, explaining their rationale for deciding whether a statement is interpretive or not. |
c. Comprehend the complexity of both change over time and continuity over time, and to apply these concepts to course contents. |
c. Ask students to come up with an example of change over time and continuity over time in the same context (such as family life). |
d. Demonstrate how historians create interpretations of the past using primary and secondary sources. |
d. Have students find the argument in a piece of historical writing. Identify the kinds of primary sources the author uses, at least one person that author is in dialogue with, and a question that would have generated this article. (For a detailed example, see Appendix 2) |
e. Connect evidence in the course content with appropriate course themes. |
e. Provide students with pieces of evidence. Ask them which course theme it applies to and ask them to explain why. |
f. Recognize the elements of historical context, e.g. what questions to ask to build context or what kinds of information are needed to build context. |
f. Ask students to list the questions they would need to ask to understand the historical context of a particular time and place. |
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