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Why is it important to know where information for research comes from?

Understand the significance of primary and secondary sources in historical research and how historians analyze them for accuracy.

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Why is it important to know where information for research comes from?

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  1. Why is it important to know where information for research comes from? Warm Up: Think about your answer to the following question QUIETLY NO SPIRALS

  2. Blind Sort Activity With your group members, group them into a logical way that makes sense for your group. Be ready to explain your groupings to the class

  3. Blind Source Answers

  4. Besides original and interpreted, what are other words you can use to describe the difference between primary and secondary resources?

  5. Your Ideas on Primary vs Secondary • Needed • Important • Accurate Info • Historical Proof • Straight Forward • Paper Oriented • Physically Look At • Main/ Original • First Hand/ Written by them • Artistic • Made before technology • Not as Important • Not originally Recorded • Internet Based • Re-enactment • Information questionable • Not written by the original person • Not Artistic • Made by technology

  6. Primary & Secondary Sources

  7. Primary vs Secondary Sources • I will analyze historical sources for accuracy by examining primaryand secondary sources to understand a historical events. • This means I will be able to justify the reason for using primary/ secondary sources when learning about a historical event.

  8. Key VocabularyWrite down on page 7&8 • Source • Primary • Secondary • First Hand • Second Hand

  9. Primary vs Secondary Resources In order to study the past, historians use sources from the past…

  10. Primaryvs. Secondary Original, first-handaccount of an event or time period Usually written or made during or close to the event or time period Original, creative writing or works of art Factual, not interpretive Analyzes and interprets primary sources Second-hand account of an historical event Interprets creative work

  11. What It Really Means

  12. Telephone Activity Example:

  13. Think/ Pair/ Share • Think back to the activities… • What is a primary source? • What is a secondary source? • What makes them different?

  14. Examples of Primary Sources • Letters • Photographs • Interviews • With your elbow partner, identify 3 more primary sources

  15. Examples of Secondary Sources • Our classroom textbook • Movie Reviews • Events in History textbooks • With your elbow partner, identify 3 more secondary sources

  16. Additional Examples of Primary vs Secondary • Diaries, journals, and letters • Newspaper and magazine articles (factual accounts) • Official Documents/ Government records (census, marriage, military) • Photographs, maps, postcards, posters • Recorded or transcribed speeches • Interviews with participants or witnesses (e.g., The Civil Right Movement) • Interviews with people who lived during a particular time (e.g., genocide in Rwanda) • Songs, Plays, novels, stories • Paintings, drawings, and sculptures • Biographies • Histories • Literary Criticism • Book, Art, and Theater Reviews • Newspaper articles that interpret

  17. What about Wikipedia??? • Do NOT use Wikipedia as either a primary source or a secondary source in your research. • Use Wikipedia as a starting point for your research and as a way to locate actual Primary and Secondary sources

  18. Processing- Complete on pg 13 of your spiral In a well written paragraph, answer the following questions: • How does a historian come to understand the past? • Why is it important to use both primary and secondary sources when looking at historical events?

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