1. Primary vs. Secondary Sources
Objective: Students will be able to identify primary and secondary sources.

2. Primary Sources
Primary sources are the ___________________sources of information
recorded ________________________________________________.
First-hand accounts of events
Historical documents
Examples
___________________________
Poetry
Personal Interviews
Autobiographies
Artifacts
Editorial Cartoons
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC

3. Why use primary sources?
To explain how major events are related to each other in time.
To think critically and distinguish between __________
and _________________.
To recognize ___________________________in print and visual materials.

4. Secondary Sources Secondary sources of information are derived from
________________________________
Summaries of primary sources
Analyses or interpretations of primary sources
Examples
_______________________
Biographies
Books written recently on a topic that happened in the past

5. Why use secondary sources?
To get ____________________opinions in order to evaluate what really happened.
To gain insight by examining the same __________________ from different __________________________.
To save time by reading information collected from a number of different ____________________.

6. Primary or Secondary?
Do you know the difference? Read the following examples of sources. Identify if each is a Primary Source by writing a P on the line or a Secondary Source, write S.
________ 1. Diary kept by John Smith, a soldier in the Confederate Army
________ 2. Photograph of Dr. George Washington Carver taken in 1898
________ 3. Biography of George Washington
________ 4. Newspaper article about the assassination of President Kennedy written on November 23, 1963
________ 5. Television mini-series about President Franklin Roosevelt's life
________ 6. Scrapbook kept by Mrs. Mary Smith in 1883 with copies of recipes and household hints
________ 7. Photograph album containing pictures of classmates at Tuskegee Institute in 1923
________ 8. Letter written by Emily Smith to her friend Pamela Jones, May 3, 1826, describing her trip by wagon from North Carolina to Huntsville, Alabama

7. ________ 9. Article about Martin Luther King, Jr
________ 9. Article about Martin Luther King, Jr. in People Magazine, 1988
________ 10. Information about Creek Indians in World Book Encyclopedia
________ 11. Cassette tape of an interview with Dr. James Lee describing his life as a doctor in Montgomery County during the 1920s
________ 12. The Story of Alabama, a textbook by Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton
________ 13. Matthew Mason's will, 1896
________ 14. Map of Alabama drawn by John LaTourette, 1841
________ 15. Minutes from the 1898 organization of United Methodist Church published in a play in 1988