1. What is a primary source? What is a secondary source?
Primary vs.. Secondary Resources
What is a primary source?
What is a secondary source?

2. Primary Resource Primary sources were:
created during the time period being studied
created at a later date by a participant in the events being studied (as in the case of memoirs)
They reflect the individual viewpoint of a participant or observer. 
Information from Library of Congress
Primary sources enable the researcher to get as close as possible to what actually happened during an historical event or time period

3. Examples of Primary Resources

4. Secondary Resource A secondary source:
is a work that interprets or analyzes an historical event or phenomenon
 at least one step removed from the event
often based on primary sources 

5. Examples
Text Books! (For the most part)
Wikipedia

6. Let’s Look at some examples
Hmmmmmmmmm what should we examine

8. Video

15. How do you decide if the source is good?
Time & Place Rule: How close to the event was it written?
Bias Rule: every source is biased some way!
Everyone has a perspective

16. How do you decide if the source is good?
Library of Congress questions
Hold on to these questions!

17. Analyzing
Let’s look at the sources and decide if there are some issues with the sources we have