HISTORY PERSPECTIVE: VOCABULARY
- Analyze – to separate (a material or abstract entity) into constituent parts or elements; determine the elements or essential features of (opposed to synthesize); to examine critically, so as to bring out the essential elements or give the essence of; to examine carefully and in detail so as to identify causes, key factors, possible results, etc.
- Ant’s eye view – the perspective view looking up from below. (http://www.dentonisd.org/cms/lib/TX21000245/Centricity/Domain/932/Perspective%20Packet.pdf)
- Autobiography – a history of a person's life written or told by that person.
- Biography – a written account of another person's life; an account in biographical form of an organization, society, theater, animal, etc.; such writings collectively; the writing of biography as an occupation or field of endeavor.
- Bird’s eye view – the perspective view looking down from above. (http://www.dentonisd.org/cms/lib/TX21000245/Centricity/Domain/932/Perspective%20Packet.pdf)
- Cause and effect – noting a relationship between actions or events such that one or more are the result of the other or others.
- Change – to make the form, nature, content, future course, etc., of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone: to change one's name; to change one's opinion; to transform or convert (usually followed by into); to substitute another or others for; exchange for something else, usually of the same kind; to give and take reciprocally; interchange.
- Characteristic – Also, characteristical. Pertaining to, constituting, or indicating the character or peculiar quality of a person or thing; typical; distinctive; a distinguishing feature or quality.
- Compare and contrast – pertaining to a written exercise about the similarities and differences between two or more people, places, or things.
- Comprehend – to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive; to take in or embrace; include; comprise.
- Connections – the act or state of connecting; the state of being connected; anything that connects; a connecting part; link; bond; association; relationship; a circle of friends or associates or a member of such a circle; association with or development of something observed, imagined, discussed, etc.; contextual relation; context, as of a word.
- Continuity – the state or quality of being continuous; a continuous or connected whole.
- Detail – an individual or minute part; an item or particular; particulars collectively; minutiae; attention to or treatment of a subject in individual or minute parts; intricate, finely wrought decoration.
- Generalization – the act or process of generalizing; a result of this process; a general statement, idea, or principle; a proposition asserting something to be true either of all members of a certain class or of an indefinite part of that class; the process of obtaining such propositions.
- Historical Empathy - Students study the past on its own terms. They do not judge the past solely in terms of present-day norms, empathy, and values. (http://165.248.72.55/hcpsv3/files/cf_ss_librarydocs_232.2008_librarydocs_232.6_librarydocs_232.27noblank_librarydocs_232.pdf)
- Historical inevitability - to see events in history as predetermined, thus eliminating the possibilities that people faced and the choices they made. (http://165.248.72.55/hcpsv3/files/cf_ss_librarydocs_232.2008_librarydocs_232.6_librarydocs_232.27noblank_librarydocs_232.pdf)
- Inquiry – a seeking or request for truth, information, or knowledge; an investigation, as into an incident; the act of inquiring or of seeking information by questioning; interrogation; a question; query.
- Interpretations – the act of interpreting; elucidation; explication; an explanation of the meaning of another's artistic or creative work; an elucidation; a conception of another's behavior; a way of interpreting.
- Man’s eye view – the perspective directly in front of you. (http://www.dentonisd.org/cms/lib/TX21000245/Centricity/Domain/932/Perspective%20Packet.pdf)
- Opinions – a belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty; a personal view, attitude, or appraisal; the formal expression of a professional judgment.
- Opportunity cost - the highest value alternative that must be foregone because another option is chosen; what you give up to get something. (http://165.248.72.55/hcpsv3/files/cf_ss_librarydocs_232.2008_librarydocs_232.6_librarydocs_232.27noblank_librarydocs_232.pdf)
- Outcome – a final product or end result; consequence; issue; a conclusion reached through a process of logical thinking.
- Overlapping – to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate; to cover and extend beyond (something else); to coincide in part with; have in common with.
- Perspective – a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface; a picture employing this technique, especially one in which it is prominent; a visible scene, especially one extending to a distance; vista; the state of existing in space before the eye; the state of one's ideas, the facts known to one, etc., in having a meaningful interrelationship; the faculty of seeing all the relevant data in a meaningful relationship; a mental view or prospect.
- Predict – to declare or tell in advance; prophesy; foretell; to foretell the future; make a prediction.
- Primary sources - information created by the event or in the process of the event such as archival sources, documents, manuscript collections, diaries, personal collections and photographs. The writer must be an eyewitness or participant in the event. Newspapers, magazines or journal articles of the era are primary sources in that they are firsthand accounts written or taken at the time of the event. (http://165.248.72.55/hcpsv3/files/cf_ss_librarydocs_232.2008_librarydocs_232.6_librarydocs_232.27noblank_librarydocs_232.pdf)
- Research – to search or search for again; diligent and systematic inquiry or investigation into a subject in order to discover or revise facts, theories, applications, etc.
- Secondary sources - books, articles, interviews, media productions or any other historical source that seeks to explain or interpret an event after the fact. The writer is not an eyewitness or participant in the event.(http://165.248.72.55/hcpsv3/files/cf_ss_librarydocs_232.2008_librarydocs_232.6_librarydocs_232.27noblank_librarydocs_232.pdf)
- Significant – important; of consequence; having or expressing a meaning; indicative; suggestive; a significant wink; of or relating to observations that are unlikely to occur by chance and that therefore indicate a systematic cause.
- Synthesis – the combining of the constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single or unified entity (opposed to analysis), the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements; a complex whole formed by combining.
- Text-to-self—connections that readers make between the text and their past experiences or background knowledge. (http://165.248.72.55/hcpsv3/files/cf_ss_librarydocs_232.2008_librarydocs_232.6_librarydocs_232.27noblank_librarydocs_232.pdf)
- Text-to-text—connections that readers make between the text they are reading and another text, including books, poems, scripts, songs or anything that is written. (http://165.248.72.55/hcpsv3/files/cf_ss_librarydocs_232.2008_librarydocs_232.6_librarydocs_232.27noblank_librarydocs_232.pdf)
- Text-to-world—connections that readers make between the texts and the bigger issues, events or concerns of society and the world at large. (http://165.248.72.55/hcpsv3/files/cf_ss_librarydocs_232.2008_librarydocs_232.6_librarydocs_232.27noblank_librarydocs_232.pdf)
- Understanding – mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation; intellectual faculties; intelligence; mind; knowledge of or familiarity with a particular thing; skill in dealing with or handling something; a mutual agreement, especially of a private, unannounced, or tacit kind.
- Viewpoint – a place affording a view of something; position of observation; an attitude of mind, or the circumstances of an individual that conduce to such an attitude.
- Visualizing – to make visual or visible; to form a mental image of; to make perceptible to the mind or imagination.
All definitions found from www.dictionary.com unless stated otherwise.