Historical Thinking Skills

Assignment - Proving it Happened!

This assignments asks you to flex your historical thinking skills in service of documenting a historical event from your life. This event can be exciting, scary, fun, boring, etc., it really doesn't matter, any event will do. 

Step 1: Come up with an event.

Step 2: Identify to primary sources of evidence that could be used to prove this event actually happened. You won't need to bring in evidence, sketching and describing it will be just fine.

Step 3: Write a paragraph or two describing the event. Make sure that you include a description of your evidence and how it proves your historical event happened.

Additional Resources: 

1. What is Primary Evidence? - Through the Lens of the JFK Assassination (Video)
2. What is Primary Evidence? From Schmoop (Video)

Notes from your Notebook