History Editor (Contract)

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History Editor (Contract)

We’re looking for passionate and knowledgeable reviewers to ensure the accuracy and clarity of History activities and practice questions as well as lessons and video tutorials that help students learn and apply various History skills.

As a contract History Editor, you'll receive the following:

Reliable Payments: Timely, reliable payments twice a month via PayPal.
Independence: No waiting, no assignments, and a massive library of lessons, questions, and videos for you to choose from
Flexibility: Work from anywhere, at any time, completely online
Supportive Staff: Access to a supportive in-house team to answer your questions

What we’re looking for:

Expertise in History
Strong English-language reading and writing skills
Proofreading and editing skills

Do you think you can be a History Reviewer for Study.com? Please apply now!

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First, read the text in the Declaration of Independence. Answer the following questions about the text:
1) What perspectives are represented in this document and what perspectives are left out?
2) What other sources might an historian want to examine to better understand attitudes toward the American Revolution during the period?*

Imagine you are reviewing a set of multiple-choice questions that a writer has created for a quiz. As a reviewer, you will want to make sure that the questions do not have any spelling, accuracy or grammar errors. You also want to make sure the questions and answers accurately assess the skill level of the student and are not plagiarized. Once you have read through the questions and answers, leave notes for the writer on how they can improve their questions.

Topic: Distinguishing between Primary and Secondary Sources

The target audience for the following questions are 6th grade history students

1. Suzy wrote an essay on her experience winning a tennis championship. Her best friend in the whole world Marcos wrote a story about her winning in the school newspaper and used quotes from her essay. Is Marcos' article a primary or secondary source? Why?

A. Primary
B. Primary, Marcos heard about the game from the referee
C. Secondary, Marcos got second in the tournament
D. Secondary, Marcos used Suzy's essay to write his article

2. An archeologist finds a wall of hieroglyphic paintings on a dig. He then interprets those hyrogliphiocs and publishes his interpretation in a journal. Is his journal article a primary or secondary source? Why?

A. Pramary, the archeologist wrote the hieroglyphics himself
B. Primary, the archeologists translated the hieroglyphics himself
C. Secondary, the archeologist interpreted the hieroglyphics and wrote about them in a journal he published afterward
D. Secondary, the archeologist's partner discovered the hieroglyphics*

You are designing a skills or standards-based assessment for a U.S. History lesson on the American Revolution. As part of this lesson, students are analyzing the following excerpt from King George III's Speech to Parliament:
I have acted with the same temper; anxious to prevent, if it had been possible, the effusion of the blood of my subjects; and the calamities which are inseparable from a state of war; still hoping that my people in America would have discerned the traiterous views of their leaders, and have been convinced, that to be a subject of Great Britain, with all its consequences, is to be the freest member of any civil society in the known world."
Please provide an example of a multiple-choice question (with four answer options) you might ask students to test their textual analysis skills.
Provide a brief explanation (1-2 lines) for how your question enables students to demonstrate proficiency on a skill or standard. - Why did you choose this question?
Provide a brief explanation (1-2 lines) for which misconceptions or errors your distractors demonstrate - Why did you choose these distractors?*

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