Be the Source....Be a Historian

Step 1

The Event

Read, Watch, Listen, Experience, React  

Step 2

Background Essay

Answer the following:

• What Happened?
• Why did it happen?
• How Did it happen?
• Who was involved?
• What Caused the Event?
• What was the effects of the Event?

Step 3

Create a Question

Create Critical Thinking about the event

Choose a Side,Angle,position

Step 4

Create a Thesis

Create a thesis (statement) plus three  baby thesis’s )

     ***Chicken Foot***

Step 5

Primary and Secondary Sources

Identify three sources for your Thesis

I.    one of your sources is you

(Citation is you)

Author,Title,Date

Step 6

Write an Essay

Step 7

Socratic Seminar

A Dialogue of Historians