Herodotus, Thucydides, and Histories of War and Empire Learning Objectives: Students will apply their close reading skills to analyze a translated primary source text by Herodotus or Thucydides, the often-considered first historians. Students will develop an understanding of the limits…
Module 7 Lab: Intro to Close Reading
Learning Objectives: Students will learn close reading analysis skills. Students will apply their close reading skills to analyze a translated primary source text illustrating Ancient Greek literature, philosophy, and poetry. Students will develop a clear thesis statement informed by the…
Module 6 Source Annotation
Learning Objectives Students will continue to develop historical thinking skills to systematically analyze primary sources (artifacts from early civilizations). Students will make connections between assigned readings and artifacts as evidence for historical scholarship. Students will consider the role of religion…
Unit 3 Reflection: Religion, Time, and Digital Reading
Over the last 2 weeks we’ve explored the development of different religious systems, the role of religion in a society as expressed through art and artifacts, and how historians handle chronology and sequencing. Now it’s time to pause and reflect…
Module 5 Lab
Learning Goals and Grading Criteria: Accurately sequence 6 historical events, ideas, people, or objects in a structured timeline spreadsheet. Appropriately cite at least 3 separate articles from our weekly readings in the Chicago Manual of Style format in the timeline…
Week 2 Annotation
Online digital scholarship projects are abundant. Parsing a digital project is important to figure out what it’s trying to accomplish, what research … It helps to have a set of reliable criteria to use to break down a project into…
Unit 1 Reflection
Throughout this Unit, we have covered metadata categories (the 15 core Dublin Core fields), cataloged personal items, conducted interviews and translated human responses into data entries, critiqued and evaluated digital projects, and considered several ways to evaluate digital projects, websites,…
Digital Collections and Metadata
Overview: Collections of primary sources are categorized and described by archivists, librarians, and sometimes the general public through crowdsourcing projects. The information about primary sources (aka metadata) is presented cleanly, but how was that information gathered and processed? What choices…
Unit 2 Reflection
Over the last 2 weeks we’ve explored how cartographers make maps, how map projections and presenting geospatial data in maps can push forward certain interpretations about past cultures and places, analyzed primary sources in depth, and learned how 5 early…
Module 4 Source Annotation
Learning Objectives Students will develop historical thinking skills to systematically analyze primary sources (artifacts from early civilizations). Students will make connections between assigned readings and artifacts as evidence for historical scholarship. Students will consider the role of geography in shaping…