1. Primary vs. Secondary Sources

2. What is a Primary Source?  Document or physical object  Written or created during the time of the event  Sources present during an experience or time period  Offer an inside view of a particular event

3. TYPES OF SOURCES

4. Original Documents  Diaries  Speeches  Manuscripts  Letters  Interviews  New film footage  Autobiographies  Official records Excerpts or translations

5. Creative Works  Poetry  Drama  Novels  Music  Art

6. Relics or Artifacts  Pottery  Furniture  Clothing  Buildings

7. EXAMPLES

8. Plato's Republic The Diary of Anne Frank The U.S. Constitution Journals of Lewis and Clark Weavings and Pottery

9. What is a Secondary Source?  Interprets and analyzes primary sources  One or more steps removed from the event  May have pictures, quotes or graphics of primary sources in them

10. TYPES OF SOURCES

11. Publications  Textbooks  Magazine articles  Histories  Criticisms  Biographies  Commentaries  encyclopedias

12. Examples  Journal/Magazine article which interprets or reviews previous findings  A history textbook  A book about the effects of WWI If I tell you something, I am the primary source. If you tell someone else what I told you, you are the secondary source.

13. Internet  Not always about the format  Who wrote it and when it was written  Location of source does not always define its classification

14. President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address

15. A 2004 editorial in The New York Times entitled “Everybody Loves Obama”

16. Book written about diaries kept during the Holocaust

17. U.S. Census Statistics

18. Biography of King Henry VIII

19. Autobiography of Winston Churchill

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