Essential Skills
| Skill |
Argumentation: Using Evidence to Support an Argument |
| Description | Historical thinking involves the ability to examine multiple pieces of evidence in concert with each other, noting contradictions, corroborations, and other relationships among sources to develop and support an argument. |
| Expectations | E2—Develop and support a historical
argument, including in a written essay, through a close analysis of
relevant and diverse historical evidence, framing the argument and
evidence around the application of a specific historical thinking skill
(e.g., comparison, causation, patterns of continuity and change over
time, or periodization).
E3—Evaluate evidence to explain its relevance to a claim or thesis, providing clear and consistent links between the evidence and the argument. E4—Relate diverse historical evidence in a cohesive way to illustrate contradiction, corroboration, qualification, and other types of historical relationships in developing an argument. |
| Where you prove that you can do this on the exam | DBQ, Short Answer, Multiple Choice |
How we do this...
Claim - Data - Warrant
In class we learn this during Socratic Seminar, Thesis Practice and Practice Essays