Unit 0 - Expectations, Digital Citizenship & More

Westward expansion was the 19th-century movement of settlers into the American West.

_______ won the Civil War.

______ is essential to understand the main idea or gist of a source .

________ is when people share too much information and is usually something they later regret sharing.

Formative assessments are worth 50% of your grade.

The main digital platform we will use on a daily basis to access assignments & announcements is

____ allows us to determine how reliable a source is.

____ was the President of the United States during the Civil War.

A _____ source is one that was created later by someone who did not experience first-hand

Loaded Language is used to

A historian is someone who researches, studies, and writes about the past.

Summative assessments are worth ____ % of your grade.

Always check multiple sources to find out whether or not info provided in one can be corroborated with info in another.

___ is prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group, usually in a way considered to be unfair.

A ____ is an artifact, document, diary, manuscript, recording, or any source of info created at the time of an event.

The 4 key components to thinking like a historian include sourcing, close reading, contextualization, and corroboration.

A few of the digital platforms we'll use throughout the year are...

The weekly overview is posted every ________

Typically, you will lose _____ points every day an assignment is late.

The 5 W's that are used when sourcing a document include: Who, What, When, Where, and Why.

A trail of data you create while using the Internet is called ______.

Reconstruction of the South took place before the Civil War.

The Rings of Responsibility include:

When we contextualize information, we're trying to gain background information about an event in history.

______ is all the information online about a person. It can be posted either by that person or other people.