1. Primary and Secondary Sources
Evaluating Non-fiction text

2. Brainstorm What is a non-fiction text? Textbooks Newspapers
Magazine articles
Based on fact

3. Writers of non-fiction text should use primary and secondary sources

4. What are primary sources?
firsthand accounts and graphics of event
Diaries
Newspapers (could be secondary)
Photographs
Autobiography
Film footage
Letters
Objects from the time
Speeches
Documents
Quote from a witness

5. Primary Source
The U.S. constitution (document)

6. Primary Source
Diary of Anne Frank

7. Primary Source
Photo of September
11 attacks

8. Primary Source
Newspaper
Quote from person
who participated

9. Why is it important for authors of non-fiction to include primary sources?
Makes story more reliable
Accurate or correct
Factual
Less bias

10. What are secondary sources?
An account of a story based on the writings or evidence of people other than the author. Accounts are written by people that have not observed the event.
Biographies
Textbooks
Encyclopedias
Drawing (not at time of event)
Quote from an expert (not a witness)
website

11. Secondary Sources

12. Secondary Source

13. Secondary Source

14. Secondary Source

15. Primary or Secondary Source?
photograph of Titanic

16. primary

17. Primary or Secondary Source?
Martin Luther King Jr. Speech

18. primary

19. Primary or Secondary Source?
website

20. secondary

21. Primary or Secondary Source?

22. secondary

23. Primary or Secondary Source?

24. primary