Table of Contents

  • Getting Familiar with Book Builder

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  • The Process of Historical Inquiry Checklist

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  • What do Historians Do?

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  • Making Historical Inquiry Your Own: Choosing a Time Period and Topic

    7

  • Getting an Overview and Creating your Essential Question

    8

  • Gathering Sources

    9

  • Working with the Sources

    10

  • Digging into Visual Documents

    11

  • Looking at the Details of Visual Documents

    12

  • Collecting Evidence from Visual Documents

    13

  • Considering Bias in Visual Documents

    14

  • Evaluating Evidence from Visual Documents

    15

  • Addressing the Essential Question with Visual Documents

    16

  • The Preston Deposition:  Digging into Written Documents and Looking at the Details

    17

  • The Preston Deposition:  Collecting Evidence

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  • The Preston Deposition:  Considering Bias

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  • The Soldiers' Depositions:  Digging into Written Documents, Looking at the Details and Considering Bias  

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  • Evaluating Evidence from Written Documents and First Person Accounts

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  • Addressing the Essential Question with Written Documents and First-Person Accounts

    22

  • Corroborating Facts Across Sources

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  • Putting it all Together:  Creating a Thesis Statement

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  • Putting it All Together: Making your Report Plan

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  • Putting it All Together:  Supporting your Argument

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  • Putting it All Together:  Choosing your Project Format

    27

  • What's Next?

    28

  • Teaching and Learning Resources

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