Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts

An _______ can be a spoken or written description of a certain event.

• Point of View

• Account

• Bud Not Buddy

• Encyclopedia

What type of account was the author personally there to experience the event.

• Firsthand Account

• Secondhand Account

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.6

Firsthand accounts can also be called __________ sources.

• Secondary

• Good

• Account

• Primary

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4A

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.4.6

Is this a firsthand or secondhand account?

"During the dust storm, I could not breathe or see my house."

• Firsthand Account

• Secondhand Account

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.6

Firsthand and secondhand accounts are always in a __________ text.

• Poem

• Fiction

• Nonfiction

• Online

Pronouns like _____ , _____ , or _____ will be used in a secondhand account.

• He, she, or they

• ONLY I

• I, me, and we

• All of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1A

CCSS.RI.4.6

CCSS.RL.4.6

Is this a firsthand or secondhand account?

Hoo•ver•ville - n.

A crudely built camp put up usually on the edge of a town to house the dispossessed and destitute during the depression of the 1930s.

- Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.

• Firsthand Account

• Secondhand Account

Which is NOT an example of a firsthand account?

• Diaries

• Speeches

• Interviews

• Textbooks

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.6

Is this a firsthand or secondhand account?

• Firsthand Account

• Secondhand Account

There can be many accounts of the same event because there are different _____________.

• Events

• Perspectives

• People

• Accounts