1. 6Y 09-07-2016 Wednesday History Poster
Objective: Describe history and the skills needed to study it.
Agenda:
Prayer
Do now: Finish posters from yesterday
Exit Ticket
Homework: finish the poster if you didn’t finish in class

2. Poster requirements Must answer the question: What is history?
Content based on lesson from yesterday
Colorful
Neat
Word and pictures

3. History is like……

4. History: the study of past events
How do you know what actually happened in the past?
Who writes history?
Can you trust them?
What skills will you need to study the past and figure out what really happened?
- Put different events together to see a big picture (cause and effect)
Tell if a source is lying or not telling the whole truth (bias)
Look at things from different perspectives
Understand primary sources (documents made in the past when the event happened) ex: laws that were written, letters, journals, newspapers, diaries, photographs, drawings, maps

5. PERSIGA
To make studying the past more manageable, we can break the areas down into: P – political – government, laws, leaders, relationship with other countries E – economic - money R – religious S – social – deals with groups of people and their relationships: ex: race, gender poor vs rich, etc. I – intellectual: ideas and technology G – geography - land A – artistic – art and music tell us what people of the time think about

6. Give an example of a political fact that you know.
Exit Ticket – please write a complete sentence to answer each question. Don’t forget to write your name on your paper.
Give an example of a political fact that you know.
2. The Spanish operated many plantations, which were large farms that grew just one kind of crop. What type(s) of information does the statement above give us? (PERSIGA) Explain your answer.
3. What do you think is the most important skill that a historian needs to have? Why?