1. Subject: Primary Documents (Sources)
Twenty Questions
Subject: Primary Documents (Sources)

2. Let's Review Primary Documents or Sources
Material created at the time history was being made.
Letters
Diaries
Maps
Period clothing
Early toys
Videos
Audio recordings
Newspaper clippings
Photographs
Newsreels
Blueprints
Illustrations
Old postcards
Documents
Relics, artifacts, antiques, etc.
Old tools
Eyewitness accounts
Drawings
Old posters

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4. Primary Souces-Twenty Questions Quiz Choose a number and click on it
Primary Souces-Twenty Questions Quiz Choose a number and click on it. Then click the arrow to return to this screen. Try to answer all 20 questions! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

5. A girl found a box of letters written by a soldier to his wife and children during World War II. Are those letters primary documents?
Yes

6. My mother found a diary written by a daughter of a Vietnam War soldier dated from She talked about what the war was like in Vietnam. Is that a primary document?
Yes

7. I went visit my grandmother. She gave me a chest
I went visit my grandmother. She gave me a chest. The chest was filled with her childhood items. She told me that she loved her doll and toys. When I opened it, I found her toys, some photographs and her birth certificate. Are those things primary documents?
Yes

8. I went to the library and found a newspaper written in about the review of the 5th Harry Potter movie . Is that newspaper a primary document? No

9. My sister and I went to the museum in town
My sister and I went to the museum in town. We saw posters and buttons for the Federal election in Are those a primary documents?
Yes

10. Our town has a festival each year
Our town has a festival each year. In 1999, a newspaper reporter wrote an article on the celebration and festival after attending the event. I found that 1999 newspaper at the library with that article. Is that a primary document?
Yes

11. Yesterday, my brother Will wrote a story about the Colonisation of South Australia which occurred in Is his story considered a primary document? No

12. One Australian Prime Minister was Robert Menzies
One Australian Prime Minister was Robert Menzies. He gave a “Declaration of War” speech in There is a film (video clip) of Robert Menzies giving his speech in Is that news clip a primary document?
Yes

13. One famous painter in the 16th century was Leonardo Da Vinci
One famous painter in the 16th century was Leonardo Da Vinci. He painted a special picture called the “Mona Lisa.” That original painting is hanging in a museum in France. Is that a primary document?
Yes

14. At our town museum, I saw many old tools, spinning wheels and other artifacts from the year Are those items primary documents?
Yes

15. My grandmother wrote letters to her cousin about the John Martin’s Christmas parade in She found the Father Christmas hat that my granny wore that year. My cousin found the box of letters and the hat and mailed the package to me. Are those primary documents?
Yes

16. I wanted to do a report on how German people arrived here in Adelaide
I wanted to do a report on how German people arrived here in Adelaide. I interviewed someone who knew about it. I couldn’t interview anyone who was there, because they are not living anymore. I made a video last week about Germanic people in South Australia in the 1800’s. Is that a primary source? No

17. My father told me a story about how the Adelaide festival centre was built in the 1970’s. My dad was 19 years old when it opened in He said he remembers everything about the opening. My dad told me the story. He took pictures and bought souvenirs that day. Would the story he told me, the photos and other items be considered primary sources?
Yes

18. When I went visit my grandmother last summer, I found a box of old postcards that her father mailed while he was fighting in World War I. Are those postcards primary documents?
Yes

19. A month ago, I read a book about World War I
A month ago, I read a book about World War I. I enjoyed learning about the war very much. I had to make a report, so I wrote my research paper on how World War I began in Is my report considered a primary document? No

20. When I went to the library last week, I saw a map that was made in It shows the streets and roads in my town at that time. It was a surveyors map that the mayor of the town wanted to have printed at that time. Is that 1960 map a primary document?
Yes

21. When my Mum was born, my grandmother started a diary for my mother
When my Mum was born, my grandmother started a diary for my mother. She wrote about what was happening at the time she was born. In the diary, she also put my Mum’s birth certificate, baby pictures, newspaper articles, a snip of her hair and the document with her baby handprints and footprints. Are those all primary documents?
Yes

22. At a museum in Mt. Barker, a historian found a letter written by James Cronk in 1837 about the observations of the Peramangk People. Is that letter a primary document?
Yes

23. I was looking in the attic for information about my Grandfather
I was looking in the attic for information about my Grandfather. I found his birth certificate, his high school certificate, some letters he wrote during World War II, his uniform, his wedding ring and his marriage certificate to my Grandmother. Are those all primary documents?
Yes

24. My Grandfather sang a song on old recorder
My Grandfather sang a song on old recorder. The museum has the audio tape of his singing. On the tape his says the year is 1935 and then he sings an old French song. Is that audio recording a primary document?
Yes

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