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Types of Sources

Types of Sources. Add to academic vocabulary. 5. primary source- firsthand information about an event, a place, or time period Draw a picture to represent primary source 6. secondary source- information from someone who did not witness an event Draw a picture to represent secondary source.

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Types of Sources

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  1. Types of Sources

  2. Add to academic vocabulary • 5. primary source- firsthand information about an event, a place, or time period • Draw a picture to represent primary source • 6. secondary source- information from someone who did not witness an event • Draw a picture to represent secondary source

  3. Examples of Primary Sources • Books from the time period you're writing about • Memoirs, letters, interviews, speeches, autobiographies, diaries • Magazine or journal article from the time period you're writing about • Newspaper article from the time period you're writing about • Photographs, advertisements, artifacts

  4. Many primary sources can be found on the web. • What did you notice on the website?

  5. Examples of secondary sourcesA secondary source contrasts with a primary source, which is an original source of the information being discussed • Encyclopedias • A journal/magazine article which interprets or reviews previous findings  • A history textbook  • A book about the effects of WWI  • Biographies • Reference books

  6. Slaves told stories through spirituals.What type of source is this? Primary source

  7. What type of source is this? Secondary source

  8. Some freed slaves wrote about their experiences and how they escaped. What type of source is this? Slave from TN Example of primary source!

  9. Here is part of an interview from a returning WWI soldier. What type of source is this? Primary source

  10. What type of source is this? Secondary source

  11. African Americans would line up and hope to get picked up to work in the fields. Freed slaves now needed to work in the fields to get very little money. Looking for work…. What type of source is this? Primary source

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