1. Bellwork Vocabulary Card On the blank side of an index card:
Write “V1” in the upper right corner
Write “reliable” near the center of the card
Leave room for an illustration
On the lined side of the card, write “able to be trusted; likely to be true or correct”
Keep your vocabulary cards neatly stored together with either a rubber band, box, envelope, etc.

2. Q&A Cognitive Notebook cover page? Author’s page? Table of Contents?
Numbering pages?

3. Historical Thinking Skills
Create a Title Page for this Unit
Start with a blank sheet of loose leaf paper
Title at the top center: Historical Thinking Skills
Write the page number in the upper right corner: 11
By Friday, your cover page should be colorfully illustrated. It may be one large illustration or a collection of smaller illustrations. All illustrations must be relevant to the unit
Number pages 12 & 13 (upper outside corners)
Table of Contents:
Page 11, “Historical Thinking Skills Cover Page”
page 12, “Lunchroom Fight”

4. What makes a story trustworthy?
Lunchroom Fight

5. Scenario
You are the principal of a school and you just found out that there was a fight in the cafeteria during lunch.
You’ve asked many students and teachers who witnessed the fight to write down what they saw and who they think started the fight.
Many of the stories disagree about important details
Who started it
When it started
Who was involved
NO ONE is lying!

6. Cornell notes (p. 13) Lunchroom Fight Question Response
How can there be different stories is no one is lying?
Who are the different people who might have seen this fight?
What makes one person’s story more believable than another person’s?

7. Check for Understanding
Why might people see or remember things differently?
Who has an interest in one person getting in trouble instead of another?
Do stories change over time? How does that affect trustworthiness?
Of all the people who could have possible seen this fight, who do you think would be the most reliable? Why?

8. Sourcing
The principal needs to consider which stories are more or less reliable because it’s important to understand why the fight began.
It important that the instigator (if there was one) be punished
it’s important to think about how to prevent such fights in the future.
Historians, in trying to figure out what happened in the past, essentially engage in the same work.
there is no way to actually recreate the moment or time-travel to witness it.
All that historians have to work with is the remaining evidence (i.e. who shot JFK? Burr/Hamilton duel? Why did the Civil War start?) – ranging from people’s stories to physical artifacts.
Sourcing is the act of questioning a piece of evidence and trying to determine if it is trustworthy.
When you source, you ask how people’s biases or perspectives change their stories (i.e. a Northerner during the Civil War vs. a Southerner during the Civil War).
This doesn’t necessarily mean a person is lying if he or she comes from a particular perspective (“You’ll find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.” – Obi Wan Kenobi)
They still might have something valuable to contribute to your understanding of what happened in the past. But as a reader it is important to keep in mind that each person sees the world in a particular way. When you keep that in mind, you’re sourcing.

9. Illustration (p. 12)
Create an illustration (or set of illustrations) that represent the concepts that we covered today.
Your illustration(s) must
take up the majority of the page
Be neat
Be colorful

10. Ticket Out the Door On the blank side of an index card:
Write “T1” in the upper right corner
Write “SA” in the upper left corner (means “short answer”)
Write this question “What is sourcing?”
Write your answer on the lined side
Keep your Tickets Out the Door neatly stored together with either a rubber band, box, envelope, etc.