Why study Social Studies? CLIO

Note Taking Tips in Mr. Mercereau’s Class Focus on the information  underlined  bold  Italicized  ALL CAPITALS  Anything repeated (anything repeated) This is true for most all classes through college!!

What you will Learn 1. Three Things Historians Do 2. Six Traits of Studying History 3. Answer: “Why study Social Studies?”

Historians Do Three Things History trains your mind and teaches you how to think and process information Historians do three things: 1. Read (Research) 2. Analyze (Think) 3. Write Historians are R.A.W.

Six Traits of Studying History 1) Chronological 2) Contrasting Interpretations 3) Change & Continuity 4) Causality 5) Contingency 6) Empathy

221 China Unified 323 Alexander Dies 460 Democracy 33 Jesus Death 476 Rome Demise 610 Islam 0 0 Timeline 1.) Chrononoligical

2.)Contrasting Interpretations History is often written by those who win the war wikipedia. org/wiki/B ayeux_Tap estry “To the victor goes the spoils of War”

“History is a set of lies agreed upon”  Napoleon Bonaparte 3.) Change & Continuity

3.) Change & Continuity: History is Unique AND History Repeats

One event is the often result of another event 4.) Causality

History is 5.) Contingent One historical event is dependent upon something else

History creates 6) Empathy

Empathy of Child Labor during Industrial Revolution I was eleven years old when I went to work in the mill. They learnt me to knit. Well, I was so little that they had to build me a box to get up on to put the sock in the machine. I worked in the hosiery mill for a long time and, well, then we finally moved back to the country. But me and my sister Molly finally went back up there in 1910 and I went to work in the silk mill. Molly went to work in the hosiery mill.... We worked twelve hours a day for fifty cents. When paydays come around, I drawed three dollars. That was for six days, seventy-two hours. I remember I lacked fifty cents having enough to pay my board. Bertha Miller Thomasville, N.C. Victoria Byerly, Hard Times Cotton Mill Girls, pp. 48–50 (Educational Resource Materials, Levine Museum of the New South, 2003,

Why Study History? “Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it” It helps PREDICT the future, by learning from past mistakes Historian’s quotes: “The lesson of history is that we should learn from the past successes & failures “History is a vast early warning system” “I know of no way of judging the future but by the past”

Why Study History? “EXPLAINS THE WORLD AROUND YOU”

A lack of historical knowledge prevents people from truly understanding the world they live in. Auguste Gusteau Explains the world around you Bernard Loiseau

Why study Social Studies? 1. What are 3 things Historians do? 2. What does the statement mean “to the victor goes the spoils of war?” Example of which Hx triat? 3. Does History repeat itself? How? Which Hx trait? 4. Give one example of how Hx is contingent? 5. Provide one example of how Hx creates empathy? 6. Provide one reason why we study Hx.