How do historians learn about the past

You might be wondering how historians study the past, if so you found the write blog. Historians use something called the Historical Method, there are five steps to it. The steps are; To gather, categorize, evaluate, interpret, and share. The first one which is gather, they have find many secondary and primary sources. A primary source is a source that is made during or right after an event, a secondary source is made by someone  who studied that event. After that they categorize written and non-written sources, written sources are sources that are written, and non-written sources are not written, there are only five types of them. Next they have to evaluate their sources, a good way to do that is to use the five W's, who, what, where, when, and why. Following that, they interpret their information that they have found. Lastly, they share their theories with others. That is how historians learn about the past.

In The Past , where did Humans tend to settle and Why?

In the past the people tended to go to similar places. That is so when they were there they were comfertable, or have all of the things that we need. For example, people of the past did not normally live in the mountains. The reason for that it the weather is really cold and it might not have as much grass as you need if they were herders. Herders would probably want to live somewhere where it is not really hot or cold, also they would want it to be flat with a lot of grass for their animals. People also would not want to live in a desert because they would get heat exhaustion, they would not have anough food or water, and it would be hard to make a house in because the material for it is not easy to find. Normal people of the past would usually settle in places where it is a bit cooler, but not too much, close to fresh water, and by people to buy goods from.

Here is the population of China. As you can see, there are not as many people close to the mountains.

What is History and why do we study it

History is so many things to so many people. However to me it a few things. First of all, I think it is what happened five seconds ago, or five hours. Also, history is old artifacts,or events such as, reading this sentence. .I think all of this is history because, who can tell you it isn't. Why we study history, well that is another story..... A lot of people say that they need to learn about the past so they do not make the same mistakes, but they do. I think we learn about the past to learn about the Earth, civilizations, and cultures. Also, it can help predict the future. So as you can see, we need to study the past to help the future.

As James Joyce say  "'History,' Stephen said, 'is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.'"

To me this quote means that with all the wars fights and blood you wish you have never discovered it.

Country Project

In my humanities class I did a project about two countries I have a connection too. The two questions that I chose were America and Germany. My personal connection to America was that I was born in Colorado, all of my family lives in  Ohio, and I have an American passport. Also America is a place I could go back and live in.

My personal connection to my second country which was Germany, was that I lived there for about a year and a half, and I would absolutely love to go back because it was so beautiful.

Reflection on "Create-an-Island"

In humanities we did a "Create-an-Island" project. We started this project in October. This project was a unique experience for me. For this project we used all the information we learned so far for this year. For our island we had to draw a map and a flag, and we had to write about the history, agriculture, education, culture, and many more. While writing this we had things that we had to write were easy like education. The history was a bit harder because it involved a lot more information, but all in all it was an easier project. Then at home we had to practice presenting our islands. The hard part about that is we needed to tell them about the whole island in three to five minutes. Finally, we presented our island. When we did it the class wrote down questions to ask when we have the round table discussion. So as you can see, this project was a great experience for me. It was a lot of fun and I hope we do the "Create-a-Country".
                                                                                                                     My Map ( My island is  
                                                                                                                  called Fishermens Paradise)

Here are some pictures of my island named Fishermens Paradise and its brochure.









                                         My Flag

( The border represents a postcard because it is like a never ending vacation. The blue stands for the water around it the fish and fishing pole represents the fish they catch. the 2 stars stand for their 2 main harbors.)

My legend

                                                                 My Brochure

How Was My Presentation for the creat an island

I think my presentation was good but just a bit too long. I liked that I did not give too much and not too little information. I also liked that I was cut too the chase and not just going on about one thing. Some things I would Improve would be to make it shorter and I would also tell tell more about the history of the island.

Create-an-Island-Project

For this project we had to create our own island. We used all the information we learned from the beginning of the year for this. We had to choose where it is, the shape ,and the size the wind current directions.

This project was fun. However I had a few difficulties making it. For example, I did not know exactly what politics so I researched it and I found out that it was about things like laws. Another thing I found out was that the Pacific Ocean catches a lot of fish so that was my idea for my name "Fishermen's Paradise" and the cities too. I thought it would be good to put my island right above the equator.