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=Using Background Knowledge: Use historical information and knowledge to read and understand the document. = Encourage students to practice this strategy by pausing to ask as they read: What else do I know about this topic? What other knowledge do I possess that might apply?

[|CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.3]  Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them.
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Historical Thinking matters is the site for learning how to do history. This site uncovers the thinking process that historians go through when they do history. The site has four inquiry activity. Each activity has a lead question and a set of sources. There are questions to help students do close reading as well as examples of historians thinking about sources and students modeling the process in a think aloud model. This is a g reat example of a student thinking historically and using his background knowledge dissecting a source from the Civil Rights movement. http://historicalthinkingmatters.org/rosaparks/1/studentwork/ta1/