Deconstruction of evaluations of funerary

evidence
1. Carefully read each of the student paragraphs you have been given.

2. Highlight reference details in a first colour (Author, Year, pg)

3. Highlight the use of research evidence (primary or secondary, fact or opinion) in a second
colour

4. Highlight the students own discussion of evidence in a third colour.

5. Where can you find examples of each of the following aspects of evaluation? Either cut
these out & glue next to examples or use numbering to identify:

1. Reference to a 2. Direct reference 3. Identification of differences in

specific primary (quotation) to cultural perspective in
artefact another historian’s interpretation (ethnocentrism)
idea

4. Topic sentence which 5. Word choice 6. Paraphrasing rather

links to sub theme in that indicates a than quoting another
hypothesis tentative opinion historian’s ideas

7. Identification that 8. Comments on the

evidence is a validity of another 9. Concluding sentence
specific fact. historian’s claim which re-affirms key
idea in topic sentence

10. Identification that

evidence is a claim or 11. Word choice that 12. Corroboration of
opinion. indicates the strength argument by offering a
of a claim. second source that is in
agreement with the first

Sue Burvill-Shaw