Tag: Learning

My Thoughts on History Now.

Now that I have learned more about history and actually done history my views on what it is and how it is done have changed and these are my thought:

History is a topic about the past, there are many different aspects to it but it is focused on what happened, who made it happen and why it happened. History focuses on events that took place that were key in why we do what we do today, for example why we make the decisions we make today and why we don’t choose to do something. This is all based of facts of what people took place in. We do History by thinking historically, this is by studying sources and understanding what other have viewed from the past. You also want to know if what you are studying is credible and also be able to state your opinion when it is necessary. To state your opinion, you want to make sure you have the right facts and you also want to be able to back up what you are saying. With this you will be able to fully engage in studying/ doing history. There are many things to study and understand about the past but with this class we just focused on Canadian history which also has many topics to cover that are important to understand why Canada is the way it is today. So when you apply all that you have learned and also state your opinion when it is necessary by backing up what you say with the right sources, this will be considered doing history and history is a key aspect to understanding change which is important to know because everything is always changing. History is not just a text and facts, it is more, it is also reliving and exploring what happened making it so you can fully understand events to the max with also being able to state how you feel it happend.

The Project

This is where I found my opinion comes in, where I decided what is most important, which was done in the Research project. I found out that what you think about what you read is important and you want to be able to look at as many documents as you can to get all the right facts. You also want to make sure that the historical documents that you are reading are reliable, some documents may not always be true. When you read through documents you want to be able to pick out the ones that support what you are stating, making it so your argument is strong. With doing this it makes it so what you are saying is credible and it gets the reader’s attention making them want to hear more of what you have to say, which is what I did in the project.

I Found my resources by looking up what topic I wanted to review. With the help of the library I found a primary source and some secondary sources. Thankfully they all answer what I wanted to have answered, the questions I had prepared for my paper are what laid out the structure of what I wanted to write about. The questions were about the relationships of the European men and First Nations women. They are all stated in my project, and all answered in it as well.

Here is the link to my project, it will give you a view on relationships with European men and First Nations women in the fur trade.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ntIek7T_7ZcpS3I0ZSd-jFi1a3sz5HfEvY2I58f2ArE/edit?usp=sharing