Wednesday, August 27, 2008 Please sit and have out your warm-up. When the bell rings you should be answering the warm-up question. Warm-up : What is the purpose of taking INTERACTIVE notes?

Reminders: Drug Forms / Emergency Forms due Friday FCAT Incentive Trip: Permission Slips due Friday MATERIAL CULTURE : Block Day

Today in History: Review how to take notes in history Notes : Primary & Secondary Resources Venn Diagram : Compare/Contrast

Primary & Secondary Resources Notes Side (Outline form) Don’t write every word! Abbreviate!! Comments Side Questions Comments Lists/Ideas Connections

Primary & Secondary Resources (notes – please copy.) Source – anything that tells about the past. This can be a tangible object or a written document. Evaluation of a source – depends on when, where, & why document was created, and in relation to historical event it recounts. Two types of sources : Primary and Secondary.

Primary Sources Actual records of the past. Words or artifacts from witnesses or participants of an event. 1. Original and unedited. 2. Not interpreted by another source. On the side, jot down some examples you think of Primary Sources

Examples: 1. Manuscripts, published documents, letters, diaries, autobiographies, sets of data, newspaper articles, wills, inventories, etc. 2. Photographs, articles of clothing, artwork, artifacts, etc.

Secondary Sources Descriptions of events taken from primary sources. It is a commentary, analysis, restatement, summary, or explanation of a primary source. Secondary sources often use primary sources to persuade or create an opinion of an event. On the side, write down examples of Secondary Sources

Examples include: Dictionary, encyclopedia, textbooks, books or articles that interpret primary materials, critiques, biographies, television shows, internet, etc.

Telling the difference. . . Rules to go by: A. Time & Place rule: The closer in time and place a source and its creator were to an event, the better the source will be. Example : Interview with airmen Andrew Smith about the war in Iraq (Desert Storm). Dated 1992. Example : Article written in 1991 about the attack at Pearl Harbor.

1. Bias - to cause partiality or favoritism B. Bias Rule 1. Bias - to cause partiality or favoritism in (a person); influence, esp. unfairly. 2. Documents tell what the creator “thought” happened, or what they want others to “think” happened. Influences include loyalties, personal experience, bias toward an individual, etc. 3. Even eyewitnesses are bias – they may have missed part of the event.

Bias Example Diary of a holocaust survivor. Event : The Holocaust Two Viewpoints: Diary of a holocaust survivor. Diary of soldier working in a concentration camp.

Discussion What is more reliable – primary or secondary sources? Based on the bias rule – what factors need to be considered when looking at documents?

Time & Place Rule How reliable would these sources be? Direct traces of an event Accounts of the event, created at the time, by firsthand participants Accounts created after the event by firsthand participants Accounts after the event by people that did not witness it, but who used interviews and evidence to recreate the event

Venn Diagram : Compare/Contrast Make one circle Primary & one Secondary. The middle are similarities.