Ch 5 Question Bank : Historical Perspectives

Ch 5 Question Bank : Historical Perspectives

Question stems and prompts you can use to draw out the historical thinker in all your students

To consider the perspectives of people in their historical context:

•     If this action doesn’t seem to make sense, isn’t what you might expect, or is surprising, why did X (a person) take this course of action?

•     If this action appears to have been the best response, why did X (a person) not take this course of action?

•     What did X (a group or individual) feel was most important in their life at this particular time?

•     Why might X (a person) have not truly understood what Y (another person) was doing or believed in?

•     What made these people do X (an action, such as fight, refuse to fight, feel ashamed, or feel proud)?

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