Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts

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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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

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You are writing an informational article about the invention of color television in the 1950s. The piece of writing is a...

• firsthand account

• secondhand account

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A firsthand account gives only one perspective.

• true

• false

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This account collects information after the event happened.

• firsthand account

• secondhand account

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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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Firsthand accounts can also be called __________ sources.

• Secondary

• Good

• Account

• Primary

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

• He, she, or they

• ONLY I

• I, me, and we

• All of the above

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Which is NOT an example of a firsthand account?

• Diaries

• Speeches

• Interviews

• Textbooks

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What account is based off personal experience?

• Firsthand Account

• Secondhand Account

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