Why is it important to know where information for research comes from?

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Why is it important to know where information for
research comes from?

• Warm Up
• Think about your answer to the following question
  QUIETLY
• NO SPIRALS

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Blind Sort
Activity

• With your group members, group them into a
  logical way that makes sense for your group.
• Be ready to explain your groupings to the class

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Blind Source Answers
Primary Resources Secondary Resources
Art Historical Textbooks
Music Recordings Biographies
Diaries Published Stories
Letters Movies of Historical Events
Photographs Maps
Video and Film Video and Film
Sound Recordings Newspapers
Interviews Magazines
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Besides original and interpreted, what are other
words you can use to describe the difference
between primary and secondary resources?
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Your Ideas on Primary vs Secondary

• Needed
• Important
• Accurate Info
• Historical Proof
• Straight Forward
• Paper Oriented
• Physically Look At
• Main/ Original
• First Hand/ Written by them
• Artistic
• Made before technology

• Not as Important
• Not originally Recorded
• Internet Based
• Re-enactment
• Information questionable
• Not written by the original person
• Not Artistic
• Made by technology

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Primary Secondary Sources
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Primary vs Secondary Sources

• I will analyze historical sources for accuracy by
  examining primary and secondary sources to
  understand a historical events.
• This means I will be able to justify the reason
  for using primary/ secondary sources when
  learning about a historical event.

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Key VocabularyWrite down on page 78

• Source
• Primary
• Secondary
• First Hand
• Second Hand

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Primary vs Secondary Resources

• In order to study the past, historians use
  sources from the past

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Primary vs. Secondary

• Original, first-hand account of an event or time
  period
• Usually written or made during or close to the
  event or time period
• Original, creative writing or works of art
• Factual, not interpretive

• Analyzes and interprets primary sources
• Second-hand account of an historical event
• Interprets creative work

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What It Really Means
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Photo Activity

• Example

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Telephone Activity

• Example

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Think/ Pair/ Share

• Think back to the activities
• What is a primary source?
• What is a secondary source?
• What makes them different?

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Examples of Primary Sources

• Letters
• Photographs
• Interviews
• With your elbow partner, identify 3 more primary
  sources

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Examples of Secondary Sources

• Our classroom textbook
• Movie Reviews
• Events in History textbooks
• With your elbow partner, identify 3 more
  secondary sources

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Additional Examples of Primary vs Secondary

• Diaries, journals, and letters
• Newspaper and magazine articles (factual
  accounts)
• Official Documents/ Government records (census,
  marriage, military)
• Photographs, maps, postcards, posters
• Recorded or transcribed speeches
• Interviews with participants or witnesses (e.g.,
  The Civil Right Movement)
• Interviews with people who lived during a
  particular time (e.g., genocide in Rwanda)
• Songs, Plays, novels, stories
• Paintings, drawings, and sculptures

• Biographies
• Histories
• Literary Criticism
• Book, Art, and Theater Reviews
• Newspaper articles that interpret

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What about Wikipedia???

• Do NOT use Wikipedia as either a primary source
  or a secondary source in your research.
• Use Wikipedia as a starting point for your
  research and as a way to locate actual Primary
  and Secondary sources

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Thinking Maps- Bubble Map

• Using a bubble map, what are other examples of
  primary sources that you see within the
  classroom? (think back to the opening activities
  to help you out)

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Processing- Complete on pg 13 of your spiral

• In a well written paragraph, answer the following
  questions
• How does a historian come to understand the past?
• Why is it important to use both primary and
  secondary sources when looking at historical
  events?