Historical Thinking Concepts In World History OHASSTA, Niagara-on-the-Lake Nov. 15, 2013 Risa Gluskin and Scott Pollock

What Does Historical Thinking Mean in Ontario? A discipline-specific framework for analyzing past and current events and developments. It is a way of developing critical thinking abilities by looking at history in a complex, interpretive, sophisticated way.

Basic Principles of Historical Thinking History ≠ the past. We do not need to turn students into historians, but rather, to help them understand how history is constructed. Our interpretation of evidence, and what we leave out, changes the history we tell.

Teaching Concepts Explicitly Historical thinking concepts are NOT in the background. They are NOT the secret language of history. They should be taught directly, often starting with personal examples.

Starting Out : Day 1 Vocabulary The Economist, Jan , 2013, Cover. * Evidence *Interpretation * Context * Presentism

Yellow Card Livestrong, Soccer Rules and Regulations on Yellow Cards, March 10, 2011, cards/ (June 20, 2013). cards/ The P Card Students wave it when someone says something presentist It’s not wrong: just needs examination

Primary Evidence Continuity and Change Ethical Dimensions of History Historical Perspective Taking Cause and Consequence Historical Significance Concept Integration

Ancient Greek Women: Primary Source Evidence Discuss what inferences historians could make about Greek women based on the 10 objects. Divide your inferences into these three categories: What is known for certain? What is probable? What is unsure (you are guessing)? “Attributed to the Amasis Painter: Lekythos. ( )”. Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Metropolitan Museum of Art (July 10, 2012).

Primary and Secondary Sources Inferences from Aristotle’s Oikonomikos – “A good wife should be the mistress of her home, having under her care all that is within it, according to the rules we have laid down. She should allow none to enter without her husband's knowledge, dreading above all things the gossip of gadding women, which tends to poison the soul. …”

Secondary Sources “Almost everything that we know about Greek women is derived ultimately from a masculine source – from the things which men said about women, from the images of women which they created in literature and art, and from the informal rules and legal regulations they constructed in order to deal with women.” “This narrative is particularly important because religious office is presented as the one arena in which Greek women assumed roles equal and comparable to those of men.”

Abolition of Slavery in the British Empire: Continuity & Change, Cause & Consequence, Ethical Dimension 10 objects from this website

Abolition

Trial of the Assassins of Julius Caesar: Historical Perspective Maev Kennedy, Beware the Ides of March: “Medal” for Killing Caesar Shows at British Museum, The Guardian, March 14, 2010, museum (Nov. 5, 2013). museum Coin made by Brutus following Caesar’s assassination

Historical Precedent Using the power of historical precedent to help students appreciate Roman perspectives – Killing of Gracchus brothers – Culture of violence – Hierarchical society Help students recognize the gap between us and them

History of Birth Control: Who and/or What Makes Historical Change? Cause & Consequence Groups Individuals Historical Conditions/ Social Forces X 19 th Amendment Working women Margaret Sanger

Multi-Civ Timeline

Archival Research

Progress and Decline Graph