Historical perspectives 3

• Geschiedenis
• Middelbare school
• vmbo t, mavo, havo
• Leerjaar 2

Why were some of your answers on the chart different from the one you were working with? What are the causes to those differences?

Vocabulary

• Perspective
  
• Worldview
  
• Presentism
  
• Context
  

Understanding an event from the perspective of the historical people or groups at the time, rather than from our modern perspective.

1. Historical context
2. Historical perspective
3. Historical context
4. Assumptions

Assuming that the thoughts, feelings and attitudes of people or groups in the past were the same as ours in the present.

1. Presentism
2. Historical context
3. Historical actor
4. Historical perspective

Refers to the political, economic, religious, social, intellectual, artistic and technological conditions that existed during the time and place we are studying.

1. Presentism
2. Worldview
3. Historical context
4. Assumptions

We need to understand the ____ in which they were living. Then we can ____ about how they might have felt at the time.

1. Context, make assumptiions
2. Perspective, make context
3. Context, Worldview
4. Presentism, judge

Multiple

Perspectives

What do you see?

When trying to understand historical perspectives we have to realize that  there is never just one perspective!

Different people (or groups of people) can see or experience the exact same thing in very different ways!

Historical perspectives

Historical perspective

The boy and girl are both telling the story of how they met in the summer. As you watch the video, think about the following questions.

1. What is similar about their stories?
   
2. What is different about their stories?
   
3. Why would he tell the story the way he did?
   
4. Why would she tell the story the way she did?
   
5. Who do you believe more? Why?
   
6. Does having multiple perspectives mean there is no truth?
   
7. What do we know definitely happened?
   
8. What is still up for debate?
   

What is similar about their stories and what is different?

Why would the girl tell the story the way she did?

Why would the boy tell the story the way he did?

Where do you think lies the truth?

There are ____________ among the groups of people involved in an event

1. Assumptions
2. Multiple contexts
3. no good people
4. Multiple perspectives

Perspective from the future

Knowing that people in the past would feel very differently about their lives than we do today, we can also imagine that people in the future might feel differently about the way we live today.

Instructions: Imagine that people 100 years in the future are all vegetarians, and that eating meat is viewed as animal cruelty. How would those future people view our society today? What would they need to do to avoid presentism?

-> Go to google classroom to make the assignment (homework)