Focus Question: How can understanding context help us interpret the past? Do Now: What makes one account of an event more trustworthy than another?
Note-taking Symbols / comma or period/ new idea/ missing words = is/ means that + and led to, leads to, resulted in, results in History = interpretation of the past George Washington = 1st President / U.S. Studying + HW good grades
Thinking like a historian means being able to… make sense of conflicting claims. consider multiple perspectives on a single event. evaluate the reliability of sources.