Today's lesson is to consider the challenge we face to understand history that we did not witness.

We will practice using the tools of a historian and to think like a historian to gather as much evidence as possible to draw conclusions about past events--as this can help us make decisions about the present and the future.  We will use a fictitious scenario of a fight that occured in a school lunch room.  How do we know what really happened if we weren't there to witness it?

Look at the top 2 strands of the World History Explanatory Rubric

• WH Explanatory Rubric

This is what you are practicing--writing a claim, giving a couple of reasons and then giving some proof (evidence)  to support your reasons.  This will require you to do a bit of search to find 2 reasons and a fact from history that supports the reasons you've stated to support your claim.

To think and write like a historian, you need to state what you believe to be true based on evidence.  This is practice (not for a grade).

There is a document in your World History (WH) Drop folder.  Complete this homework task within that document. We will go over this next time in class (Aug. 23/Aug. 24)