1. 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?

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

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

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

5. 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.

6. 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

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

8. 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

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

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.

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

14. 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

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