Primary and Secondary Sources

This source is created during or very close to the time it is reporting on

• primary source

• secondary source

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Encyclopedias, textbooks and biographies are examples of

• secondary sources

• primary sources

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which one of these is not a primary source?

• artwork

• research paper

• music

• diary

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

In a secondary source,

• the author is writing a diary

• the author has first hand feelings about what they are writing about.

• the author is not there to witness the event.

• the author is collecting data on a science experiment.

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

President Lincoln's letters about the Civil War are a

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.4.6

A resource that has been analyzed, reworded and interpreted is

• a secondary source

• a primary source

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

A court record like a birth certificate is a

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.6

Check on the boxes of those that are primary sources

• a photograph

• a World Book encyclopedia

• a speech

• a newspaper from 1912 on the sinking of the Titanic

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.6

A dictionary is

• a primary source

• a secondary source

If you were going to write your autobiography, you would be writing a

• primary source

• secondary source

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10