Historiography &Primary Source Documents

Historiography•What is it? Discuss with the table what it

means:

Historiography•Watch this clip and determine your

conclusions about historiography:•What were they?

Historiography

Historiography: Answer with table•What are other examples that may

contain “historiography” in history?•Why do you feel that it is important for us

to examine other perspectives in history?•What are real life examples where

individuals would need to use historiography for their job? Explain.

What about this one?

Now?

Primary Source Documents•What are they?

Primary Source Documents (PSD)•In this course, we will encounter two

types of documents:▫Visual (picture, drawing, painting, cartoon)▫Print (document, journal, letter)

OPTIC1. Conduct a brief overview of the visual or

graphic2. Key in on the parts of the visual by reading all

labels and noting any elements or details that seem important.

3. Read the title of the visual so that you are clear on the subject it is covering.

4. Use the title as your theory and the part of the visual as you clues to detect and specify the interrelationships in the graphic.

5. Draw a conclusion about the visual as a whole.

OPTIC

SOAPS•What is the subject?•What is the occasion?•Who is the audience?•What is the purpose?•Who is the speaker?

SOAPS•When in the Course of human events, it

becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

APPARTS•AUTHOR?•PLACE & TIME?•PRIOR KNOWLEDGE?•AUDIENCE?•REASON?•THE MAIN IDEA?•SIGNIFICANCE?

APPARTSIN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

PSD Journal•Throughout the two trimesters, we will be

using a PSD journal book that you will write your responses to class or homework assignments for PSD.

•During the second trimester, we will be completing DBQ or Document Based Questions where you will analyze documents, then write a response based on a specific question.