RI 4.6 Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts

You read an article about the various causes of the Great Depression, written by a 40-year-old history professor. The article is...

• firsthand account
• secondhand account

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You read a book about World War I. It includes letters written from the soldiers to their loved ones back home in America, telling them about the war. The letters are...

• firsthand account
• secondhand account

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A few years before your great-grandfather died, your mom recorded a conversation she had with him about his memories of living through the Great Depression. The recording is...

• firsthand account
• secondhand account

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You read a biography about the life of scientist Steven Hawking. The biography is… 

• firsthand account
• secondhand account

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You are writing an informational article about the invention of color television in the 1950s. The piece of writing is…

• firsthand account
• secondhand account

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A first hand account is when someone is __________ .

• there
• not there

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You can find firsthand account by looking for the pronouns

• you, your

• he, she, it

• I, me, we, us

You can find secondhand account by finding

• I, me, we, us

• he, she, they, characters' names

• you, your

The events the author is writing about happened to somebody else.

• Secondhand Account

• Synthesis

• Sequence

• Firsthand Account

The author uses research to write about an event.

• Reasons

• Firsthand Account

• Secondhand Account

• Opinion