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Research Tidbits and other reminders for Unit 1-Ninth Grade Honors English

Research Tidbits and other reminders for Unit 1-Ninth Grade Honors English. Written by Karen Thornton, 2013. What is a Primary Source?.

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Research Tidbits and other reminders for Unit 1-Ninth Grade Honors English

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  1. Research Tidbits and other reminders for Unit 1-Ninth Grade Honors English Written by Karen Thornton, 2013

  2. What is a Primary Source? Primary sources provide first-hand testimony or direct evidence concerning a topic under investigation. They are created by witnesses or recorders who experienced the events or conditions being documented.

  3. A list of Primary Sources Both published and unpublisheddocuments: • Autobiography • Memoir • Oral history and artifacts • Original documents: journal, letter, interview, news film footage, official records, diary • Government documents • Manuscripts • Art, film, video

  4. What is a secondary source? • A secondary source interprets and analyzes primary sources. These sources are one or more steps removed from the event. Secondary sources may have pictures, quotes or graphics of primary sources in them.

  5. Examples of secondary sources: • A magazine article, if it examines or interprets previous findings • An encyclopedia • A text book • A newspaper article (may include primary sources such as pictures, a direct interview, or an editorial)

  6. Primary or Secondary? • transcript from an interview • Your history textbook • Your journal • A movie • A newspaper article (this gets tricky)

  7. And these? • An oral history collected by a historian in 2010, which retells father/son stories told by tribal moms and handed down from generation to generation, as told to the historian by a living Cherokee Indian. • A box containing the belongings of a POW who was never located. The artifacts were found buried next to a prison camp in Korea.

  8. MULTIPLE MEANING WORDSPick the sentence that uses the underlined word in the same way as the original sentence. He mowed the yard on Sunday afternoon. • 1. My stride is about one yard in length. • 2. My dog loves to run in the yard. • 3.A football field is 100 yards long.

  9. Try another: We exited through the door in the rear. • 1. The new student sat in the rear of the classroom. • 2. My sister had to rear her children all by herself. • 3. Laura’s wish is to rear her children into responsible adults.

  10. Semi colons, not comma splices! • If you combine two independent clauses with a comma, you have created a run-on sentence, or a comma splice. Instead, combine them with a semi-colon, a period, or a FANBOYS (coordinating) conjunction. It is not difficult, you can do it! Oops. I just wrote a comma splice. How do I fix it?

  11. PICK A WAY: • It’s not difficult; you can do it! • It’s not difficult and you can do it! (a comma between two short independent clauses is optional—I chose not to use one) • It’s not difficult. You can do it!

  12. What is an appositive? An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it. • The insect, a large cockroach, is crawling across the kitchen table. • Robbie, a hot-tempered tennis player, charged the umpire and tried to crack the poor man's skull with a racket.

  13. Allusions are everywhere! • An allusion is a reference to a literary work, a historical event, a song…. • So, if I want to make a point, I might allude to a reference that will help me explain myself.

  14. Examples: • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih7N9_VUU4U • http://www.rareexception.com/Garden/Pie.php

  15. Allusions in “American Pie:” • American Pie: Buddy Holly died on February 3, 1959, in a plane crash in Iowa during a snowstorm. Its rumored that the name of the plane was: American Pie. • “With every paper I’d deliver:”DonMcLean's (the guy who wrote the song in 1972) only job besides being a full-time singer/song writer was being a paperboy.

  16. Widowed bride: Holley’s wife was pregnant when he died. • The day the music died: The same plane crash that killed Buddy Holly also tragically took the lives of Richie Valens ("La Bamba") and The Big Bopper ("Chantilly Lace.") Since all three were so prominent at the time, February 3, 1959, became known as "The Day The Music Died."

  17. “Drove my chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry, and this’ll be the day that I die” • Driving the Chevy to the levee almost certainly refers to the three college students whose murder was the subject of the film 'Mississippi Burning.' The students were attempting to register as black voters, and after being killed by bigoted thugs their bodies were buried in a levee. Them good ol' boys being: Holly, Valens, and the Big Bopper, They were singing about their death on February 3. One of Holly's hits was "That'll be the Day"; the chorus contains the line "That'll be the day that I die

  18. Did you write the book of love? The Book of Love" by the Monotones; hit in 1958."Oh I wonder, wonder who... who, who wrote the book of love?"

  19. Helter Skelter in a summer swelter "Helter Skelter" is a Beatles song that Charles Manson, claiming to have been "inspired"by the song (through which he thought God and/or the devil were taking to him) led his followers in the Tate-LaBianca murders.

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