1.1.3 L2 8C Learning Check - Primary Sources

What is a primary source?

• A first-hand document or artifact from the time period being studied

• An article from a college professor

• A kindergartener

• The first telephone ever invented.

I found a letter to one of my friends in the locker room after school the other day. I know it’s private, but I want to read it! What is the letter?

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

Which definition matches "primary source"?

• a document or written work created after an event

• firsthand evidence of an event in history

Which is NOT a primary source

• magazine

• newspaper

• interview

• website article

What is true about all primary sources? 

• they are either handwritten or photographs only
• they are a way to learn about an event, object, or person

A television show explaining Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon. Primary Source - True or False?

• True
• False

An autobiography is NOT a Primary Source. True or False?

• True
• False

This picture book is a Primary Source - True or False?

• True
• False

Newspaper announcing President Kennedy's assassination. NOT a Primary Source - True or False?

• True
• False

The word BIAS means prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another.

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