1. Good morning!
Please write down answers to the following questions – in your spiral notebook, if you have it. Label this “First Four” and date your paper – 8/5/16.
How do you define “history”?
Why is “history” important? Or why is it not important?
List the three most significant events in world history.  Why do you think these are the most significant events?

2. Group Discussion How do you define “history?”
You have 3 minutes to share your responses and settle on the best definition to which you can all agree.
Write your group’s definition on a piece of paper to share & post.

3. An argument about the significant past
Two Good Definitions:
History is…
An argument about the significant past
Change over time

4. What is History Not? History is: Not just a list of dates & facts
Not trivia
Not conclusive. We continue to argue about it and its meaning.

5. Why is history important? Or, why is it not?
What do you think?
3 minute group discussion
Share

6. Trotter says…
History is important because it helps us to understand who we are, and where we can go.

7. Historical Thinking

8. Group Activity You are what you eat. What conclusions can we draw?
Using the following pictures, what conclusions can you draw about these people based on what you see?
In other words, use evidence to make an argument.
Each picture is data about a different person. What conclusions could you make about them based on what you see?
Write down your group responses.

9. Groups

10. Science Teacher – Eats all Local fool

11. College Students

13. Carpenter/Hunter

14. Bar Tender

15. Street advertiser - $425/month fixed income

16. So What?
Historians use significant facts or data to support historical arguments.
Some arguments are better than others.
What else would we want to examine to make better arguments about the owners of these refrigerators?

17. Historical Thinking Quiz
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
When was World War II?
Who is the best musician of all time?
Who has been the greatest US president?
Why is race important in America?
What does it mean to be an American?

18. Historical Thinking: Levels of Questioning
Level 1 - Recall
Directly from text
Dates, facts, vocabulary
Level 2 – Analysis & Inference
Reading “between the lines”
Draw logical conclusions from known premise
refrigerators
Level 3 – Synthesis
Beyond the text
Inquires about value, importance & application

19. Recognize levels of questioning.
This is what we do!
Always question texts.
Recognize levels of questioning.

20. Review How do we define history?
Historians use significant _______ to support historical __________.
What are the three levels of questioning?

21. Business Meeting: What does it mean to be in Trotter’s Class?
Syllabus
Class expectations
Tardies
Phones & technology
Bathroom –
Before the bell?
15/15
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22. HOMEWORK Crash Course: World War I
Watch & answer questions. What questions do you have?