Historical Thinking Concepts In World History OHASSTA, Niagara-on-the-Lake Nov. 15, 2013

1. Historical Thinking ConceptsIn World HistoryOHASSTA,Niagara-on-the-LakeNov. 15, 2013 Risa Gluskin and Scott Pollock

2. What Does Historical Thinking Mean in Ontario? • A discipline-specific framework for analyzing past and current events and developments. • It is a way of developing critical thinking abilities by looking at history in a complex, interpretive, sophisticated way.

3. Basic Principles of Historical Thinking • History ≠ the past. • We do not need to turn students into historians, but rather, to help them understand how history is constructed. • Our interpretation of evidence, and what we • leave out, changes the history we tell.

4. Teaching Concepts Explicitly Historical thinking concepts are NOT in the background. They are NOT the secret language of history. They should be taught directly, often starting with personal examples.

5. Starting Out : Day 1 Vocabulary * Evidence *Interpretation * Context * Presentism The Economist, Jan. 19-25, 2013, Cover.

6. Yellow Card The P Card Students wave it when someone says something presentist It’s not wrong: just needs examination Livestrong, Soccer Rules and Regulations on Yellow Cards, March 10, 2011, http://www.livestrong.com/article/438302-soccer-rules-regulations-on-yellow-cards/ (June 20, 2013).

7. Concept Integration Historical Significance Cause and Consequence Continuity and Change Primary Evidence Historical Perspective Taking Ethical Dimensions of History

8. Ancient Greek Women: Primary Source Evidence • Discuss what inferences historians could make about Greek women based on the 10 objects. • Divide your inferences into these three categories: • What is known for certain? • What is probable? • What is unsure (you are guessing)? “Attributed to the Amasis Painter: Lekythos. (31.11.10)”. Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2000-. http://metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/31.11.10 (July 10, 2012).

9. Primary and Secondary Sources • Inferences from Aristotle’s Oikonomikos • “A good wife should be the mistress of her home, having under her care all that is within it, according to the rules we have laid down. She should allow none to enter without her husband's knowledge, dreading above all things the gossip of gadding women, which tends to poison the soul. …”

10. Secondary Sources

11. Abolition of Slavery in the British Empire: Continuity & Change, Cause & Consequence, Ethical Dimension 10 objects from this website

12. Abolition

13. Trial of the Assassins of Julius Caesar: Historical Perspective Coin made by Brutus following Caesar’s assassination Maev Kennedy, Beware the Ides of March: “Medal” for Killing Caesar Shows at British Museum, The Guardian, March 14, 2010, http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2010/mar/14/julius-caesar-coin-british-museum (Nov. 5, 2013).

14. Historical Precedent • Using the power of historical precedent to help students appreciate Roman perspectives • Killing of Gracchus brothers • Culture of violence • Hierarchical society Help students recognize the gap between us and them

15. History of Birth Control: Who and/or What Makes Historical Change? Cause & Consequence Individuals Margaret Sanger X 19th Amendment Historical Conditions/Social Forces Groups Working women

16. Multi-Civ Timeline

17. Archival Research

18. Progress and Decline Graph