1. Timelines Terms to learn and understand Calendars Century Millennium
BC, BCE, Zero, AD, CE

2. Time Terms
Decade:
10 years

3. Century: 100 years Cent is a Latin word for 100
Metric measurement centimeter
Remember there are 100 cents in a dollar.

4. Millennium:
1000 years
In metric measurement: millimeter

5. Sources of history
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Oral Tradition
Artifacts

6. Primary Sources: An informational source from the time of the event
Autobiographies
Diaries
Documents
Eyewitness accounts
Film footage
Laws
Letters
Newspaper articles
Novels
Objects from the time
Oral histories
Photographs
Poems, art, music
Speeches

7. Why do we use primary sources in history?
No bias, no viewpoint
Only your interpretation
Can give additional information
Materials
Textures
Printing methods
Technologies

8. What is going on in this photo? What questions does it raise?

9. This is a photo of a family funeral in North Dakota in the 1890s
This is a photo of a family funeral in North Dakota in the 1890s. I talk about what I was curious about when I look at this photo. First question that occurs to me – Who is in the casket? How did that child die? Epidemic? Starvation? Wolves?  Then, who is in this family? Why so many kids? How isolated is the family?

10. Does a Primary Source have to be the original material?
No – it can be in another form, but it can’t be edited or interpreted in any way.
For example,
Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!” speech can be found in 100 Key Documents in American History

11. Secondary Sources:
An informational source that analyzes the event. These sources often use several primary sources to compile the information.
Biographies
Encyclopedias
History books
Textbooks

12. Beware of Bias!
Is it possible for a Secondary Source to be completely objective?

13. Oral Traditions
stories, songs, and poems about the history and heritage of a people that are passed from generation to generation by word of mouth
Examples: myths, legends, folk lore

14. Artifact
A man made object

15. Calendar
What are they?

16. Calendar
A calendar is a system of organizing units of time for the purpose of reckoning time over extended periods.
They serve as a source of social order and cultural identity
There are about 40 calendars used in the world today

17. Time Basis Day: based on the rotation of the Earth on its axis
Year: based on the revolution of the Earth around the Sun
Month: based on the revolution of the Moon around the Earth

18. Timelines
Why do we use timelines?

19. A calendar of events to make it easy to visually see the order in which events occurred
To be able to relate events with cause and effect occurrences.

20. BC and AD B.C. means time period Before Christ
AD (Anno Domini) Latin for “In the Year of the Lord”

21. CE and BCE
Some people want to avoid the reference to Christ and use the following abbreviations
BCE: “Before the Common Era” or “Before the Christian Era”
CE: “Common Era” or “Christian Era”

22. AD or CE
BC or BCE
100
100
200
200
The numbers get larger the further they are from zero

23. What do you do first to make a timeline?
First draw a line

24. 2. Figure out how to evenly divide the line into time spaces

25. 3. Place numbers at the spaces

26. 3. …or date years at the spaces

27. 4. Add events within time line.
Moved back
To Ft. Wayne
Learned to walk
Got a puppy
For my birthday,
Rover!
New baby
Brother, Gabe
Learned to
swim
Moved to
Florida
Started
Middle
school
Rode bike without training wheels
New baby
sister, Molly
On swim team

28. Timelines _____/10 Include 10 dates and descriptions from life
_____/ 5 Dates need to be placed in order from earliest in life to most recent occurrences
_____/ 5 Dates must be spaced to scale (see example)
_____/20 Total score possible