6X 09-07-2016 Wednesday What is History Objective: Describe history and the skills needed to study it. Agenda: Prayer Do now: What is history? What skills do you need to study it? Discuss Do Now PERSIGA

Class discussion What are your answers for the do now?

History: the study of past events How do you know what actually happened in the past? Who writes history? Can you trust them? What skills will you need to study the past and figure out what really happened?

What skills will you need to study the past and figure out what really happened? Read different languages, understand the languages of the past. Tell if something is fake (ex: fake money, passports, etc.) Observe and pay attention to details Understand primary sources Ask questions – know what questions to ask – Collect data and put them together Make conclusions

History is like……

PERSIGA To make studying the past more manageable, we can break the areas down into: P – political – government, laws, leaders, relationship with other countries E – economic - money R – religious S – social – deals with groups of people and their relationships: ex: race, gender poor vs rich, etc. I – intellectual: ideas and technology G – geography - land A – artistic – art and music tell us what people of the time think about

Poster: Job of a Historian Create a poster that shows what the job of a historian is like. Use your notes to help you show what you’ve learned. Words and pictures Neat Color Content based on notes and class discussion