Contextualization

OBJECTIVE:

Students will be able to…

•Successfully use contextualization to analyze a document

AGENDA:

Review

Contextualization

Continuity and Change

Journal 3

What is happening in this picture?

OBJECTIVE:

Students will be able to…

•Successfully use contextualization to analyze a document

AGENDA:

Review

Contextualization

Continuity and Change

Journal 3

OBJECTIVE:

Students will be able to…

•Successfully use contextualization to analyze a document

AGENDA:

Review

Contextualization

Continuity and Change

Journal 3

• What is really happening?

• How does having the context change the meaning of the picture?

Lightning Round Review!Rip off a half sheet of paper. Label it 1-3.

1. Define Periodization

2. Why is Corroboration important? (What is its purpose?)

Lightning Round Review!3. Source this document:

Announcements!And the winner is…

The Nest!

Video Clip

Are the wolf’s motives for being in the house good or bad?

Wolf’s Side

Wolf’s Side 2

What was different?

How did the context affect the way you saw the actions

of the wolf?

Contextualization• Review: What is it?

• Understanding how the context surrounding an event might influence it•Would the outcome have been different under different

circumstances? Would it even have happened?

Types of Context• 3 types of context:• Broad Context- The “Big Picture.” What is going on during this time

period that is influencing your event? Ex. Tensions between colonists and England leading to Lexington and Concord

• Local Context- The “Little Picture.” What immediate circumstances are affecting your event? Ex. British troops wading through a river

•Master Context- How does this event interact with the rest of history? How is it similar to other things that happened; how is it different?

Pulling Context: PracticeAs we watch the 4 presidential advertisements, take notes on what issues might have been important to the people at the time.

http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/lessons/16

Continuity and Change Over Time

The Pledge of Allegiance• As a class, I think we need to work on our patriotism, so we’re going to practice the Pledge of Allegiance until we get it perfect.

• Stand up, and when I say go, recite the pledge

• I’ll stop you if I don’t think you’re doing it quite right

Why did it change?

Continuity and Change Over Time• What has changed within a specific time period?

• What has remained the same within a specific time period?

• What can explain why some things have changed and others have not?