Secondary 1 History E-Learning

Term 3, Week 1
Unit 1: Chapter 2
Topic: Reconstructing the Past

Students are to read up on Chapter 2 of your textbook.

The key issue you need to take note of is:

1. How to evaluate evidence. When we are handling or exposed to a collection of sources/evidences, we need to be careful and watch out for the reliability of the source.

We need to go through a process to test the reliability of it. We need to ask the credibility, consistency and corroboration of the sources.

Ask yourself :

-WHO provided the source?
-WHO is in reference to?
-WHY is the source chosen?
-WHEN was the account given?
-WHEN did the event occur?
-WHERE was the source made/came from?
-WHAT is the purpose of the source/historian…?
-WHAT happened?
-WHAT assumptions does the author make?
-WHAT is the basis of the author’s conclusion?
-DOES the content agree with what you know or have learned about the issue?

The evidence becomes a fact if it passes the 3 C's, otherwise, we may take it as an opinion. But do not be quick to dismiss the use of the source.


2. Read and try to understand the language of time.


E-Learning Tasks:

1. Workbook Exercise...
*To be submitted on the day of your return from LOA.

-Complete Chapter 2 from your workbook, stop at Page 8

2. Textbook Exercise...
- Answer the simple exercises on pages 21-22, and blog your response online.


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