1. Origin Purpose Values Limitations You’ll be doing this for your Historical Investigation

2. Evaluating Sources  Not everything you hear is true  Would you trust: Your best friend’s diary? Voldemort’s personal diary? A television commercial? A book written by Darth Vader? A Nazi newspaper?

3. Sources can be

4. Origin  What is the source? Capture of Saarbrucken. GIs of 70th Div seen with Nazi flag and portrait of Hitler. 22 Mar 1945. Photo: Corbis.

5. Purpose  Why is the source? Capture of Saarbrucken. GIs of 70th Div seen with Nazi flag and portrait of Hitler. 22 Mar 1945. Photo: Corbis.

6. Value  How is the source useful? Capture of Saarbrucken. GIs of 70th Div seen with Nazi flag and portrait of Hitler. 22 Mar 1945. Photo: Corbis.

7. Limitations  What can’t the source tell us? Capture of Saarbrucken. GIs of 70th Div seen with Nazi flag and portrait of Hitler. 22 Mar 1945. Photo: Corbis.

8. HOMEWORK  Using what you now know about World War 1, your job is to use OPVL to analyze the Treaty of Versailles