Teaching the Skill of Contextualization

In this article, Sam Wineburg and Abby Reisman describe three activities that help students think contextually as they read historical documents: (1) providing background knowledge, (2) asking guiding questions, and (3) explicitly modeling contextualized thinking.  Read the article and think about how you can train your students to contextualize historical documents.

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