1. Warm Up What type of map is this?
What types of landforms are shown on this map?
Which landform consists of the Rocky Mountains?

4. Primary Sources Provide first-hand evidence.
People that were actually present during an event they wrote about.
Examples: diaries, journals, pictures, letters

5. Secondary Sources Interpretations and opinions about primary sources.
The author was not present at the time of the event.
Example: textbooks

6. Primary or Secondary? The Diary of Anne Frank Why?
Manifest of a ship coming to Ellis Island in 1932
What is a manifest?

7. Primary or Secondary
A biography of Harriet Tubman written by a current author
Why?
What is a biography?
An article in a newspaper written in about the end of World War 2

8. Primary or Secondary A textbook chapter about the Great Depression
Why?
A letter from Sam Houston to Stephen F. Austin

9. In Your Own Words
With your partner, come up with a definition for primary and secondary sources. Write the definitions that you came up with here:
Primary sources:
Secondary sources:

10. Exit Ticket
What is an example of a primary source that you have used in the past?
What is an example of a secondary source that you have used in the past?