HISTORY 8 ONLINE

Weekly quiz grades are worth what percent of your final grade?

20%

How many exams (not including quizzes) are there in this course?

One midterm and a final

Which of the following would NOT be a primary source on the Civil War and Reconstruction?

The film Gone with the Wind, produced in 1939, which portrays the time period

What does it mean for a historian to contextualize a source?

The historian situates the source and the events it discusses in place and time

What will be the consequences in this class if you copy any part of your written exam answers (without citation), rather than writing these answers with your own ideas and in your own works?

Both of the above

According to the article "Reading Primary Sources," just about anything that existed or was created during the historical period you are studying can count as a primary source.

FALSE

Historians try to determine what really happened in the past by looking for the single best source that tells the truth about each event

FALSE

According to the web presentation "What is Historical Thinking?," primary sources need to be questioned and read closely to be useful for learning about the past.

TRUE