Primary vs. Secondary Sources

1. Primary vs. Secondary Sources Objective: Students will be able to identify primary and secondary sources.

2. Primary Sources • Primary sources are the ___________________sources of information recorded ________________________________________________. • First-hand accounts of events • Historical documents • Examples • ___________________________ • ___________________________ • ___________________________ • Poetry • Personal Interviews • Autobiographies • Artifacts • Editorial Cartoons Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

3. Why use primary sources? • To explain how major events are related to each other in time. • To think critically and distinguish between __________ and _________________. • To recognize ___________________________in print and visual materials.

4. Secondary Sources • Secondary sources of information are derived from ________________________________ • Summaries of primary sources • Analyses or interpretations of primary sources • Examples • _______________________ • _______________________ • Biographies • Books written recently on a topic that happened in the past

5. Why use secondary sources? • To get ____________________opinions in order to evaluate what really happened. • To gain insight by examining the same __________________ from different __________________________. • To save time by reading information collected from a number of different ____________________.

6. Primary or Secondary? • Do you know the difference? Read the following examples of sources. Identify if each is a Primary Source by writing a P on the line or a Secondary Source, write S. • ________ 1. Diary kept by John Smith, a soldier in the Confederate Army • ________ 2. Photograph of Dr. George Washington Carver taken in 1898 • ________ 3. Biography of George Washington • ________ 4. Newspaper article about the assassination of President Kennedy written on November 23, 1963 • ________ 5. Television mini-series about President Franklin Roosevelt's life • ________ 6. Scrapbook kept by Mrs. Mary Smith in 1883 with copies of recipes and household hints • ________ 7. Photograph album containing pictures of classmates at Tuskegee Institute in 1923 • ________ 8. Letter written by Emily Smith to her friend Pamela Jones, May 3, 1826, describing her trip by wagon from North Carolina to Huntsville, Alabama

7. ________ 9. Article about Martin Luther King, Jr. in People Magazine, 1988 • ________ 10. Information about Creek Indians in World Book Encyclopedia • ________ 11. Cassette tape of an interview with Dr. James Lee describing his life as a doctor in Montgomery County during the 1920s • ________ 12. The Story of Alabama, a textbook by Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton • ________ 13. Matthew Mason's will, 1896 • ________ 14. Map of Alabama drawn by John LaTourette, 1841 • ________ 15. Minutes from the 1898 organization of United Methodist Church published in a play in 1988