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Sources

What is a “Source” ?. In Social Studies. Sources. A Source is a place from which information is taken. Two (2) Types of Sources. 1st. 2nd. What is a P rimary Source ?. A primary source is something written , spoken , heard , or seen by a witness to an event.

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Sources

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  1. What is a “Source” ? In Social Studies Sources A Source is a place from which information is taken.

  2. Two (2) Types of Sources 1st 2nd

  3. What is a Primary Source ? A primary source is something written, spoken, heard, or seenby a witness to an event. Vesuvius – 79AD / CE

  4. Primary Sourcesare actual records of events that have survived from the past. Rosetta Stone Hieroglyphic – Picture Writing • Letters • Photographs (Gabby’s Photo’s) • Diaries • Poems • Newspaper Accounts • Interviews • Class Notes & Meeting Notes • Autobiography • Recordings / Video • Portraits/Statues/Monuments (at or near the time) Demotic – Egyptian Script Greek (Ancient)

  5. How to Know If Something is a Primary Source?

  6. What is a Secondary Source? A Secondary source is something completed after. Secondary sources offer a retelling of primary sources. • Dictionaries (all) • Encyclopedias (all) • Text Books (all) • Term Papers • Essays • Biographies (all) Start Activity

  7. Primary Source/Document ? Rosetta Stone • Found in Alexandria Egypt • 3 Languages • Classic Greek • Demotic (Egyptian Script) • Hieroglyphic (Egyptian Pictures) • Translated by Champollion which unlocked Hieroglyphic writing • The inscription is about how temple priests would honor the pharaoh (king). Primary Source

  8. In 1996, Mr. Ott travelled to Egypt. After seeing “wondrous things” In 2007, he wrote a term paper on King Tutankhamun long after the events had happened. In order to complete his paper he had to look up information in an encyclopedia and talked to an Egyptologist. Is this a primary source? Not a Primary Source Secondary Source “I see wondrous things.” - Howard Carter, Nov 5, 1922 after opening King Tut’s Tomb

  9. Primary Source? Secondary Source ? NeitherFake/Made Up

  10. A person told you a story of her relative Saint Pio. She explained that she was told this story from her grandparents. She said that one of her relatives met a woman that Saint Pio healed who had no pupils but he made see. Is this a Primary or Secondary source? Secondary Sourcebut also…

  11. Oral History/Tradition Mrs. Anderson’s story of Saint Pio is Oral History or Oral Tradition. Oral History can be a primary or secondary source. If Mrs. Anderson saw Saint Pio heal the woman, it would be a first hand account. Since Mrs. Anderson’s relative interviewed or met the woman that would be a first hand account. Mrs. Anderson was retelling the account and it is a secondary source.

  12. What We Learned Primary SourcesSecondary SourcesOral Tradition/History

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