1. 6Y 09-06-2016 Tuesday What is History
Objective: Describe history and the skills needed to study it.
Agenda:
Prayer
Do now: What is history? What skills do you need to study it?
Discuss Do Now
PERSIGA

2. Class discussion What are your answers for the do now?
How would you find out what happened at a friend’s party this weekend?

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. Create a poster that shows what history is
Create a poster that shows what history is. Use your notes to help you show what you’ve learned. Words and pictures Neat Color Content based on notes and class discussion