Primary and Secondary sources

What is true about primary sources? (two answers)

• Created many years after an event

• Created shortly after an event

• Created by a person that lived through an event

• Created by a person that did not live through an event

• Created by studying primary sources

What is true about primary sources? (three answers)

• Created many years after an event

• Created shortly after an event

• Created by a person that lived through an event

• Created by a person that did not live through an event

• Created by studying primary sources

Choose the primary source.

• textbook

• speech

• research paper

• biography

Choose the secondary source.

• clothing

• diary entry

• autobiography

• research paper

Choose the primary source.

• newspaper article from 1943 about WWII

• research paper on the Holocaust

• magazine celebrating 75 years since WWII

• biography of Adolf Hitler

Choose the secondary source.

• interview with JFK

• biography of George Washington

• speech from Ronald Reagan

• letter from Obama to Donald Trump

Primary sources are used to help create secondary sources.

• True

• False

Secondary sources often summarize the main idea of a topic and not just one specific part.

• True

• False

Choose the primary source.

• dictionary definition for Supreme Court

• interview with an expert on US Presidents

• letter from a soldier to his wife

• Hollywood movie about Lewis and Clark

Choose the secondary source.

• Map of the United States created in 1854.

• Coin from the 13 original colonies.

• Painting of George Washington from 2008.

• Newspaper article from the day after 9/11.