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How To Study History DBQ Intro-Min
How To Study History DBQ Intro-Min
Question
* Primary Sources
* Secondary Sources
Let’s practice
Primary or Secondary?
Primary or Secondary?
Primary or Secondary?
Primary or Secondary?
Primary or Secondary?
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When and where was the document Understand how context/ Based on the background
created? background information influences information, I understand this
Contextualization What was different then? What was the content of the document document differently
the same? Recognize that documents are because . . .
How might the circumstances in products of particular points in The author might have
which the document was created time been influenced by _____
affect its content? (historical context) . . .
This document might not give
me the whole picture
because . . .
What do other documents say? Establish what is probable by The author agrees/disagrees
Corroboration Do the documents agree? If not, comparing documents to each with . . .
why? other These documents all agree/
What are other possible Recognize disparities between disagree about . . .
documents? accounts Another document to
What documents are most reliable? consider might be . . .
What claims does the author make? Identify the author’s claims about I think the author chose these
Close Reading What evidence does the author use? an event words in order to . . .
What language (words, phrases, Evaluate the evidence and The author is trying to
images, symbols) does the author reasoning the author uses to convince me . . .
use to persuade the document’s support claims The author claims . . .
audience? Evaluate author’s word choice; The evidence used to support
How does the document’s language understand that language is used the author’s claims is . . .
indicate the author’s perspective? deliberately
* Sourcing
excommunicating him from the Catholic Church. The passage below is an
excerpt from the letter Luther sent to the Archbishop of Mainz with the 95
Theses.
* When was The grace of God be with you in all its fullness and power!
document
Spare me, Most Reverend Father in Christ and Most Illustrious
Prince, that I, the dregs of humanity, have so much boldness that I have
dared to think of [writing] a letter to someone of your Sublimity. . . .
written? Papal indulgences for the building of St. Peter's are circulating under
your most distinguished name. I do not bring accusation against the
outcries of the preachers, which I have not heard, so much as I grieve over
* What was the wholly false impressions which the people have conceived from [the
indulgences]. The unhappy souls believe that if they have purchased letters
of indulgence they are sure of their salvation.
purpose in Vocabulary
* Close reading? The grace of God be with you in all its fullness and power!
* How would you Spare me, Most Reverend Father in Christ and Most Illustrious
Prince, that I, the dregs of humanity, have so much boldness that I have
Papal indulgences for the building of St. Peter's are circulating under
Luther’s tone in your most distinguished name. I do not bring accusation against the
outcries of the preachers, which I have not heard, so much as I grieve over
the wholly false impressions which the people have conceived from [the
this document? indulgences]. The unhappy souls believe that if they have purchased letters
of indulgence they are sure of their salvation.
Vocabulary
* Close reading? The grace of God be with you in all its fullness and power!
* According to Spare me, Most Reverend Father in Christ and Most Illustrious
Prince, that I, the dregs of humanity, have so much boldness that I have
Papal indulgences for the building of St. Peter's are circulating under
why did Luther your most distinguished name. I do not bring accusation against the
outcries of the preachers, which I have not heard, so much as I grieve over
the wholly false impressions which the people have conceived from [the
challenge the indulgences]. The unhappy souls believe that if they have purchased letters
of indulgence they are sure of their salvation.
Church? Vocabulary
What are the differences between Luther’s account from 1517 and his account of 1535?
Place in Life
He was almost 20 years
He was a young older & the leader of a
monk writing at the revolutionary religious
start of his career. movement.
Disagreement
with the
Church His disagreement His disagreement
with church seems to with church seems to
be over a small be about bigger
matter of religious political issues that
doctrine. Luther cut to the center of
wants clarification & what Catholicism and
doesn’t seem to be Christianity are all
trying to start a about.
revolution.
Discussion Question