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    The document is a reading report by Stephen Josef Belleza for his history class. It summarizes three key things he learned from assigned readings on distinguishing primary and secondary sources: 1) Archaeologists find remnants like potsherds and coins that are not the main focus of history; 2) Historians rely on evidence from documents, whether handwritten or machine-produced; 3) Historians with knowledge of both the past and present can make sensible connections to determine historical truth. Belleza has three unclear areas: 1) the meaning of "subjective" knowledge; 2) the risk of historical erasure from technology changes; 3) how historians study scattered historical objects. He asks three questions: 1)

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    The document is a reading report by Stephen Josef Belleza for his history class. It summarizes three key things he learned from assigned readings on distinguishing primary and secondary sources: 1) Archaeologists find remnants like potsherds and coins that are not the main focus of history; 2) Historians rely on evidence from documents, whether handwritten or machine-produced; 3) Historians with knowledge of both the past and present can make sensible connections to determine historical truth. Belleza has three unclear areas: 1) the meaning of "subjective" knowledge; 2) the risk of historical erasure from technology changes; 3) how historians study scattered historical objects. He asks three questions: 1)

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    The document is a reading report by Stephen Josef Belleza for his history class. It summarizes three key things he learned from assigned readings on distinguishing primary and secondary sources: 1) Archaeologists find remnants like potsherds and coins that are not the main focus of history; 2) Historians rely on evidence from documents, whether handwritten or machine-produced; 3) Historians with knowledge of both the past and present can make sensible connections to determine historical truth. Belleza has three unclear areas: 1) the meaning of "subjective" knowledge; 2) the risk of historical erasure from technology changes; 3) how historians study scattered historical objects. He asks three questions: 1)

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    Assignment 1. Metacognitive Reading Report no.

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    Name: Stephen Josef Belleza Section: B30

    Unit 1: Distinction of Primary and Secondary Sources Readings:


    1. Gottschalk, Louis (1969). Understanding History: A Primer of Historical Method.

    New York: A.A. Knopf, pp. 41- 61 and pp. 117-170.

    2. Howell, Martha and Prevenier, Walter (2001). From Reliable Sources: An

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    Introduction to Historical Methods. New York: Cornell University Press, pp.17-68.

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    Answer the following questions:

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    1. Three (3) things that I significantly learned from the readings
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    i) There were remnants found in the study of the archaeologists, such as a potsherd, a
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    coin, and other evidences of the past. These facts are not the main focus of the study of history.
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    ii) Historians rely mainly on evidences, whether it is handmade or machine-produced,


    such as films and early types of photographs.
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    iii) The historians who knows the present life the best, will understand the history the
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    best. Those historians with great knowledge about the past and the present could make
    sensible analogies that could reason out the truth about the history.
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    2. Three (3) things that are still unclear to me


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    i) The prejudice exists against subjective knowledge largely because the word
    subjective has also meaning of being illusionary or based on personal opinions without truth or
    being biased.
    ii) History is at risk of erasure; an even greater problem is stood by the rapid changes in
    hardware and software, for a record made today may be unreadable with the technology of the
    future.

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    iii) History has only scattered objects to study documents that do not make up the total
    object that the historian is studying. That object exists only in as far as his always incomplete
    and frequently changing of it can re-create it.

    3. I used to think that…


    History was not really essential because what happened in the history and it is different
    from the present. But then after reading the given article, I have seemed to learn that the

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    history defines who we are today. I have learned that though these published collections have
    long served us, it is clear that we will never be able to edit and circulate all the known

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    historical sources.

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    4. Three (3) questions that I want to ask about the readings
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    i) There were indications found that could answer our questions from the past
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    like why, how, what, when, and where certain thing happened before. Do these indications
    really just to assure a degree of certainty about the past?
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    ii) Do historians rely completely on written sources for their knowledge even of those
    ages in which the printed text existed?
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    iii) What does it mean from the passage that the records must be safeguarded that it
    really come from the past and what they seem to be a mind's eye is directed towards re-
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    creation and not creation?


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