Textbook & primary secondary sources - web

September 15, 2010September 15, 2010

• Objective:• Primary V Secondary Resources

• Homework: If you have not already done so Homework: If you have not already done so finish your vocab. # 6 & 7 may need to be looked finish your vocab. # 6 & 7 may need to be looked up in the dictionaryup in the dictionary

Have out:Have out:•Primary & Secondary Source Worksheet•Pen/Pencil•Ren Faire Permission Slip

Warm Up:Tell someone about your favorite elementary school memory!

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• Define Primary Resources–Receiving information from the person

that lived it

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AdvantagesAdvantages

• Emotion of the moment• Details• 5 senses• Personality• First hand facts - no whisper down the

alley affect• Multiple sources

Primary ResourcesPrimary Resources

AdvantagesAdvantages• Emotion of the moment• Details• 5 senses• Personality• First hand facts - no

whisper down the alley affect

• Multiple sources

DisadvantagesDisadvantages• Emotion of the moment• Prejudice• Forgetting • Winner tells history• Losers are portrayed as

the bad guys• Different Perspectives of

the same event• Hard to find sources

• Define Secondary ResourcesDefine Secondary Resources– Second hand accounts/tellings of an Second hand accounts/tellings of an

eventevent

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Advantages

• Easy to find these sources• Can help clarify primary resources• Tons of resources

Secondary Resources

Advantages• Easy to find these sources• Can help clarify primary

resources• Tons of resources

DisadvantagesDisadvantages• No emotion• Retold several times so it

may lose details

Exit TicketExit Ticket

You will be given a piece of paper with either a primary or secondary source on it….As you leave class place the piece of paper with your name and period # on the back in the correct box (primary or secondary)