Interim Review Topics
Test 11/13 - 11/14 (Monday and Tuesday)
Use your notes, classroom assignments, homework, DO NOWS, and exit tickets to study for the test
What is History?
Annotation
Point of View
is it related to my purpose?
What
Constructing historical arguments.
Claim
Artifacts
Geographic scope of the Neolithic Revolution: Fertile Crescent, Indus Valley, Huang He River, Egypt
Effects of innovations over time
Test 11/13 - 11/14 (Monday and Tuesday)
Use your notes, classroom assignments, homework, DO NOWS, and exit tickets to study for the test
What is History?
- History is an account of the past constructed from evidence.
- This account of the past differs based on one’s perspective.
- a document or physical object that was written or created by someone during the time period being studied
- a document created after the time period being studied using primary sources to write about it
Annotation
- the act of using symbols and notes to show what you are thinking while you read.
- Doing things such as underlining and circling words during reading
- Helps find key information
- Who wrote it
- Where did they write it
- When was it written
- What is it
Point of View
- The way a person looks at a situation
- Not all people view things the same way so there are different accounts of history
- Is there source related to what we are talking about
- Will it help prove my argument
- Historians combining their information
- Creates the most accurate history
is it related to my purpose?
- Is the information that you have needed for for argument?
- Does it have all of the information needed?
- Are there enough accounts of what happened to prove the argument?
- Is the person writing it have a fair point of view?
- What other sources could be used to help prove the argument?
- More eyewitness accounts, more documents, more images, etc.
What
- What happened in this event?
- Where did this event happen?
- When did this event happen?
- Why did this event happen?
- What actions led to this event?
Constructing historical arguments.
Claim
- Answer to a question
- Find information that supports your answer
- Explain why the evidence found supports the claim
Artifacts
- Old items used to study about the past
- Used to see where people migrated in the world
- Used to study how they live
- Comparing modern day societies to those of the past
- Hunted for food
- Followed the food
- Made them nomads (people who move from place to place)
- Gathering
- Collecting food from bushes
- Turning point in history (big moment in mankind’s history)
- People went from hunting and gathering to settling down in one spot
- Agriculture made it possible (Made farms)
- Domestication of animals (using animals for farming and food)
- Permanent settlements because the food is in one place
- Population increases
Geographic scope of the Neolithic Revolution: Fertile Crescent, Indus Valley, Huang He River, Egypt
- Rivers used for farming
- People now have specific jobs in society
- New innovations such as irrigation help society grow
- 7 things in civilizations (Religions, job specialization, government, cities, writing, technology, social hierarchy)
- Location
Effects of innovations over time
- How did they help change society
- 9 enduring issues (Conflict, Cooperation, Power, Inequality, Innovation, Interconnectedness, Ideas and Beliefs, Scarcity, Environmental Impact
- How did Hammurabi do this?
- Rules and how it affected society