1. Activating Strategy
Think: What is the difference between an autobiography/diary and a biography?
Pair: Discuss with your shoulder partner.
Share Your Responses with the class
How is the information presented in a diary different than a biography?

2. Essential Questions
What is a primary and secondary source and what is the difference between them?
What are some advantages and disadvantages of primary and secondary sources?

3. Primary Source Secondary Source
Lesson Vocabulary
Primary Source
Secondary Source

4. Lesson Vocabulary
Primary Source- a record made by people who saw or took part in an event.
Secondary Source- a record of an event written by someone that was not there at the actual time an event occurred.

5. Primary Sources
The author/artist of the source was there when the event took place.
The source was made when the event took place.
Examples: letters, diaries, interviews, drawings
Their drawings or photographs may show the events that they saw.

6. Secondary Sources
The author/artist of the source was NOT there when the event took place.
The source was made after the event took place.
Examples: textbooks, encyclopedias, magazine articles, newspaper articles, and online sources

7. Page 7 in Book
Read page 7 in textbook. Answer “Practice the Skill” questions in lesson packet.

8. Primary-Secondary Sources
1) Source A-primary source (It is a letter from Ghandi himself) Source B- secondary source (newspaper article) 2) Source A: names, dates, places, reasons for going on the march, and writer’s opinion Source B: Names, dates, places, Britain’s response, India’s response, and writer’s opinion

9. Primary/Secondary Sources
3) Source A shows Mohandes Ghandi’s feelings and idea on the matter, but not Lord Irwin’s Source B presents more of what’s happening in Britain and India but gives a one-sided view (Britain’s)

10. Activity Book Page 5
The radio message from Emperor Hiroshito is the primary source because it give his actual words at the time of the Japanese surrender to the United States.
The Library of Congress article provides more details.
Names of Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the dates they were bombed.
Documents of surrender were signed on the USS Missouri, in Tokyo Bay on 9-2,1945
The terms of surrender

11. Activity Book Page 5
3) The primary source has examples of Hiroito’s bias, including his belief that the United States would destroy human civilization.

12. 3-2-1 Summarizer
3- List three examples of Secondary Sources 2- List two examples of Primary Sources 1- Give me one advantage and one disadvantage of a Secondary source.