1. Primary and Secondary Sources Evaluating Non-fiction text

2. Brainstorm What is a non-fiction text? Textbooks Newspapers Magazine articles Based on fact

3. Writers of non-fiction text should use primary and secondary sources

4. What are primary sources? Primary sources  firsthand accounts and graphics of event Diaries Newspapers (could be secondary) Photographs Autobiography Film footage Letters Objects from the time Speeches Documents Quote from a witness

5. Primary Source The U.S. constitution (document)

6. Primary Source Diary of Anne Frank

7. Primary Source Photo of September 11 attacks

8. Primary Source Newspaper Quote from person who participated

9. Why is it important for authors of non-fiction to include primary sources? Makes story more reliable Accurate or correct Factual Less bias

10. What are secondary sources? An account of a story based on the writings or evidence of people other than the author. Accounts are written by people that have not observed the event.  Biographies  Textbooks  Encyclopedias  Drawing (not at time of event)  Quote from an expert (not a witness)  website

11. Secondary Sources

12. Secondary Source

15. Primary or Secondary Source? photograph of Titanic

16. primary

17. Primary or Secondary Source? Martin Luther King Jr. Speech

18. primary

19. Primary or Secondary Source? website www.titanic-facts.comwww.titanic-facts.com

20. secondary

21. Primary or Secondary Source?

22. secondary

23. Primary or Secondary Source?

24. primary