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Primary vs. Secondary Sources
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What is a Primary Source? Document or physical object Written or created during the time of the event Sources present during an experience or time period Offer an inside view of a particular event
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TYPES OF SOURCES
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Original Documents Diaries Speeches Manuscripts Letters Interviews New film footage Autobiographies Official records Excerpts or translations
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Creative Works Poetry Drama Novels Music Art
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Relics or Artifacts Pottery Furniture Clothing Buildings
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EXAMPLES
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Plato's Republic The Diary of Anne Frank The U.S. Constitution Journals of Lewis and Clark Weavings and Pottery
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What is a Secondary Source? Interprets and analyzes primary sources One or more steps removed from the event May have pictures, quotes or graphics of primary sources in them
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TYPES OF SOURCES
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Publications Textbooks Magazine articles Histories Criticisms Biographies Commentaries encyclopedias
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Examples Journal/Magazine article which interprets or reviews previous findings A history textbook A book about the effects of WWI If I tell you something, I am the primary source. If you tell someone else what I told you, you are the secondary source.
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Internet Not always about the format Who wrote it and when it was written Location of source does not always define its classification
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President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
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A 2004 editorial in The New York Times entitled “Everybody Loves Obama”
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Book written about diaries kept during the Holocaust
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U.S. Census Statistics
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Biography of King Henry VIII
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Autobiography of Winston Churchill
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