Historical Investigation Resource Sheet (cont’d) Sourcing Contextualizing Close Reading and Asking Supporting Corroborating What is the document? What is the author’s perspective? Questions Where do the multiple sources Who created it and when? What else do we know about the time? What do the pieces of evidence agree and disagree? What was its purpose? tell me? Which are the strong sources for What does the text say explicitly? Is this document credible and answering the compelling reliable? question?
Historical Investigation Resource Sheet (cont’d) Sourcing What is the document? Who created it and when? What was its purpose? What does the text say explicitly? Contextualizing What is the author’s perspective? What else do we know about the time? Close Reading and Asking Supporting Questions What do the pieces of evidence tell me? Is this document credible and reliable? Corroborating Where do the multiple sources agree and disagree? Which are the strong sources for answering the compelling question?