PRIMARY/SECONDARY SOURCES

Secondary source documents are all of the following EXCEPT:

• An analysis of primary sources or events

• Sources created later by someone who did not participate in the event

• Interpretations of original documents

• Original materials

Which of these is NOT an example of a primary source?

• Original uniforms wore at a time in history

• Film footage of a historical event

• Diaries written at the time of an event

• A poem about World War II from your classmate

Which of these is NOT an example of a secondary source?

• Newspaper articles

• Encyclopedia

• Diary entry

• Textbook

What type of source is this? A diary titled “Life in the Mines” from a miner named Lucky Noah who lived in Idaho in the 1870’s.

• Primary

• Secondary

What type of source is this? An encyclopedia entry on the Vietnam War

• Primary

• Secondary

What type of source is this? The diary of Anne Frank -a young girl who lived in hiding during the Holocaust

• Primary

• Secondary

What type of source is this? Sheet music that was used to play military tunes during the Revolutionary War

• Primary

• Secondary

What type of source is this? A website that summarizes Ancient Roman mythology

• Primary

• Secondary

What type of source is this? A map of China created during ancient times

• Primary

• Secondary

What type of source is this? An ancient tablet of Babylonian King Hammurabi’s Code of Laws

• Primary

• Secondary