1. Before class starts, copy the information below on each side of a sheet of notebook paper
On top line: Title of Document_________________________________
1. What information in the document catches your attention?
Leave 5 lines blank
2. What questions can you ask that will help make this information meaningful? (2)
3. What conclusions or inferences can be drawn from the questions you have asked?(1)
4. What evidence do you find in the document to support your inferences?

2. Asking Questions and Making Inferences
European Exploration
and Trade in the New World

3. Asking Questions and Making Inferences
Directions: Design a series of questions based on your study of a reading or historical document. From the questions you design you will also be required to draw conclusions and make inferences that are supported by information found in the document.
Title of Document_________________________________
1. What information in the document catches your attention?
2. What questions can you ask that will help make this information meaningful?
3. What conclusions or inferences can be drawn from the questions you have asked?
4. What evidence do you find in the document to support your inferences?

4. “Christopher Columbus Departs Spain for the New World, 1492”