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6798390041Period 1Historical Period: 8000-600 BCE Technological and Environmental Transformations0
6798390042Period 2Historical Period: 600 BCE-600 CE Organization and Reorganization1
6798390043Period 3Historical Period: 600-1450 Regional and Interregional Interactions2
6798390044Period 4Historical Period: 1450-1750 Global Interactions3
6798390045Period 5Historical Period: 1750-1900 Industrialization and Global Integration4
6798390046Period 6Historical Period: 1900-Present Accelerating Global Change and Realignments5
6798390052Analyzing EvidenceHistorical Thinking Skill: Explain the authors point of view, who it is going to, relevance, format, and historical content to explain the primary source. *S.O.A.P: Speaker, Occasion, Audience, purpose. Evaluate usefulness, reliability, or limitations of a primary source6
6798390053InterpretationHistorical Thinking Skill: Analyze the argument, explain how it was supported through evidence, and evaluate the effectiveness. Analyze the diverse historical interpretations.7
6798390054ComparisonHistorical Thinking Skill: Compare the diverse perspectives in the primary and secondary sources in order to draw conclusions about 1 or more events. Compare different historical individuals, events, developments, or processes to draw a conclusion8
6798390055ContextualizationHistorical Thinking Skill: Situates historical events, developments, or processes within the broader context in which they occurred to draw conclusions for their significance9
6798390056SynthesisHistorical Thinking Skill: Connect a given historical issue to a relative development in a different historical context, geographical area, period or era. Connect different course themes and approaches to history for a given issue. Use insights from a different discipline to better understand a given issue.10
6798390057CausationHistorical Thinking Skill: Explain the effects of a historical event, development or process. Evaluate the relative significance of different causes/effects on historical events of processes.11
6798390058Continuity and Change Over TimeHistorical Thinking Skill: Identify the patterns of CCOT and explain the significance. Explain how patterns of CCOT relate to larger historical processes or themes.12
6798390059PeriodizationHistorical Thinking Skill: Explain ways historical events and processes can be organized into discrete, different, and definable historical periods. Evaluate whether a particular event or date could or could not be a turning point between different, definable historical periods, used in particular historical evidence.13
6798390060ArgumentationHistorical Thinking Skill: Articulate a defensible claim in the form of a clear and compelling thesis that relative importance of multiple factors and sees a diverse number of perspectives. Use specific historical evidence, and support the argument with the application of a specific historical thinking skill. Evaluate the evidence and explain its relevance to a claim or thesis, giving a clear link to the evidence and the argument. Relate the historical evidence in a cohesive way to develop an argument.14

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