1. Primary vs. Secondary Sources

2. What is a Primary Source?
Document or physical object
Written or created during the time of the event
Sources present during an experience or time period
Offer an inside view of a particular event

3. TYPES OF SOURCES

4. Original Documents Excerpts or translations Diaries Speeches
Manuscripts
Letters
Interviews
New film footage
Autobiographies
Official records

5. Creative Works
Poetry
Drama
Novels
Music
Art
Photographs

6. Relics or Artifacts
Pottery
Furniture
Clothing
Buildings

7. EXAMPLES

8. Journals of Lewis and Clark
The Diary of Anne Frank
The U.S. Constitution
Journals of Lewis and Clark
Weavings and Pottery
Plato's Republic

9. What is a Secondary Source?
Interprets and analyzes primary sources
One or more steps removed from the event
May have pictures, quotes or graphics of primary sources in them

10. TYPES OF SOURCES

11. Publications Textbooks Magazine articles Histories Criticisms
Biographies
Commentaries
encyclopedias

12. Examples
Journal/Magazine article which interprets or reviews previous findings
A history textbook
A book about the effects of WWI
If I tell you something, I am the primary source. If you tell someone else what I told you, you are the secondary source.

13. Internet Not always about the format
Who wrote it and when it was written
Location of source does not always define its classification

14. President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address

15. A 2004 editorial in The New York Times entitled “Everybody Loves Obama”

16. Book written about diaries kept during the Holocaust

17. U.S. Census Statistics

18. Biography of King Henry VIII

19. Autobiography of Winston Churchill

20. http://www. myteacherpages. com/webpages/TTravis/social_studies_class