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7th Grade Social Studies SS070105

Unit 1: An Introduction to World History Lesson 5

Word Cards

Word Cards from previous lessons needed for this lesson:


• Historical event -- Word Card #11 from Lesson 3
• Historical account -- Word Card #12 from Lesson 3
• Corroborate -- Word Card #16 from Lesson 4
• Evidence -- Word Card #17 from Lesson 4

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framing a historical problem sourcing

process used to narrow the asking questions about


focus of historical study a particular source,
from a broad topic to a including: Who created
more specific research it? When? Why? From
question or problem in order to create an what perspective or point of view? What
historical account did they know?

Example: The first step in creating an historical Example: Sourcing is one more way in which
account is to frame an historical problem, which historians try to establish the accuracy and
gives you a specific question to study, such as reliability of a source.
“Why didn’t Detroit develop a subway system
during the 20th Century?” (SS070105)
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