{"id":3458,"date":"2015-05-20T19:48:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T16:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/?p=3092"},"modified":"2015-02-14T21:53:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T18:53:12","slug":"sourcework-anticipation-textual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/interpretations\/sourcework-anticipation-textual\/","title":{"rendered":"Sourcework Anticipation Task"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After knowledge of a topic has been developed, provide students with a written source addressing\u00a0a key question relating to the topic, but\u00a0with key details\u00a0deleted.<\/p>\n<p>Students can then work alone or in pairs to anticipate how the source will look when complete. How will the author explain his points? What evidence will he use to substantiate them?<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, students can compare their thoughts to the real source. What did they anticipate correctly? What evidence and arguments did they surprised them most?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3093\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3093\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-01-at-20.45.07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3093 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-01-at-20.45.07-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-02-01 at 20.45.07\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3093\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Orwell explains why he thinks the Spanish Civil War ended with the defeat of the Republic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The example above comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/IB\/Spanish_Civil_War\/index.htm\">my study unit at www.activehistory.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For a similar exercise but focusing on statistics, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/guess-the-stats\/\">this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After knowledge of a topic has been developed, provide students with a written source addressing\u00a0a key question relating to the topic, but\u00a0with key details\u00a0deleted. Students can then work alone or in pairs to anticipate how the source will look when complete. How will the author explain his points? What evidence will he use to substantiate&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/interpretations\/sourcework-anticipation-textual\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":3353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[199,203,211],"tags":[217,333,351],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-Shot-2015-02-01-at-20.45.07.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-TM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3541,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions\/3541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}