Practice 1: Analyzing Historical Practice 2: Argument Development Evidence Students will be assessed on their ability to… Primary Sources Describe historically relevant information and/or arguments within a source. Explain how a source provides information the broader historical setting within which it was created. Explain how a source's of view, purpose, historical situation, and/or audience might affect a source's meaning. Explain the relative historical significance Make a historically defensible claim in of a source's point of view, purpose, the form of an evaluative thesis. historical situation, and/or audience. Support an argument using specific and Evaluate a source's credibility and/or relevant evidence. limitations. Use historical reasoning to explain relationships pieces of historical evidence. Secondary Sources Consider ways that diverse or alternative evidence could be used to qualify or Describe the claim or argument of a modify an argument. secondary source, as well as the evidence used. Describe a pattern or trend in quantitative data in non-text-based sources. Explain how a historian's claim or argument is supported with evidence. Explain how a historian's context influences the claim or argument. Analyze patterns and trends in quantitative data in non-text-based sources. Evaluate the effectiveness of a historical claim or argument. **For each historical period, students will be given a variety of different types of primary sources (textual and visual) from which to practice discovering and analyzing the author’s point of view, the author’s purpose, audience, and historical context. For samples of primary sources see pages 11-19. AP History Reasoning Skills (College Board)
Practice 1: Analyzing Historical Evidence Practice 2: Argument Development Students will be assessed on their ability to… Primary Sources Describe historically relevant information and/or arguments within a source. Explain how a source provides information the broader historical setting within which it was created. Explain how a source's of view, purpose, historical situation, and/or audience might affect a source's meaning. Explain the relative historical significance of a source's point of view, purpose, historical situation, and/or audience. Evaluate a source's credibility and/or limitations. Secondary Sources Describe the claim or argument of a secondary source, as well as the evidence used. Describe a pattern or trend in quantitative data in non-text-based sources. Explain how a historian's claim or argument is supported with evidence. Explain how a historian's context influences the claim or argument. Analyze patterns and trends in quantitative data in non-text-based sources. Evaluate the effectiveness of a historical claim or argument. Make a historically defensible claim in the form of an evaluative thesis. Support an argument using specific and relevant evidence. Use historical reasoning to explain relationships pieces of historical evidence. Consider ways that diverse or alternative evidence could be used to qualify or modify an argument. **For each historical period, students will be given a variety of different types of primary sources (textual and visual) from which to practice discovering and analyzing the author’s point of view, the author’s purpose, audience, and historical context. For samples of primary sources see pages 11-19. AP History Reasoning Skills (College Board)
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