GRADE 10 SOCIAL STUDIES · CHAPTER 2
History, sources & inquiry
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Historical inquiry
Evaluate a historical interpretation's limits
Match the scope of a historical conclusion to the surviving evidence and its context.
Historical reasoning
Evaluate competing explanations of historical change
Distinguish a plausible causal mechanism, a correlation and a counterexample using stated evidence.
AN EXAMPLE FROM THIS CHAPTER
Five surviving letters all come from one wealthy household. What limits a claim about every resident's daily life?
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The sources represent one household rather than all residents.
The collection's social coverage is narrow even if its details are valuable.
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