Historical Investigation Resource Sheet (cont’d) Sourcing Close Reading and Asking Supporting Contextualizing Corroborating Questions What is the text? What else was going on at Where do the multiple What does the text say the historic time this source texts agree and disagree? Who created it and when? explicitly? was created? Which texts are more What claim does the What else was going on reliable? author/creator make? during this time (historic Which are the best texts for setting)? What evidence does the answering the compelling author/creator make? How did the historic setting question? influence the creation of What is the author’s/creator’s the text? perspective? What is its purpose? Does this text seem credible? Why or why not?
Historical Investigation Resource Sheet (cont’d) Sourcing What is the text? Who created it and when? Close Reading and Asking Supporting Questions What does the text say explicitly? What claim does the author/creator make? What evidence does the author/creator make? What is the author’s/creator’s perspective? What is its purpose? Does this text seem credible? Why or why not? Contextualizing What else was going on at the historic time this source was created? What else was going on during this time (historic setting)? How did the historic setting influence the creation of the text? Corroborating Where do the multiple texts agree and disagree? Which texts are more reliable? Which are the best texts for answering the compelling question?
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