Firsthand & 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

After your teacher tells you and your classmates a funny story about her first time riding a roller coaster, your classmate draws a comic strip about the event. The comic strip is...

• firsthand account

• secondhand account

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CCSS.RI.4.6

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

You read an email from your grandfather, and he tells some funny stories about when he taught your mom how to drive a car. The email is... 

• firsthand account
• secondhand account

A first hand account is when someone is __________ .

• there
• not there

First hand account is written in 

• first person point of view
• second person point of view
• third person point of view

A description of an REAL event that is based on research and written by someone who was NOT there to witness the event is called a ______________________.

• Firsthand Account
• Secondhand Account
• Third Person Point of View
• First Person Point of View

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

• Firsthand Account

• Secondhand Account

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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

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CCSS.RI.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