RI 4.5 Accounts (29) (30)

True or False: A firsthand account is a primary source. The story, event, or topic is based on the author's experience.

• True

• False

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RI 4.6 First 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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RI 4.6 First and Secondhand accounts

Is the following text a firsthand account or a secondhand account?

I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

The 15-year-old girl wrote a memoir about how her life changed after she was shot after fighting for girls' rights to an education.

• Firsthand Account

• Secondhand Account

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RI 4.6 First and Secondhand accounts

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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RI 4.6 First and Secondhand accounts

Pronouns like ____ , ____ , ____ we will be used in a firsthand account.

• He, she, they

• ONLY WE

• I, me, we

• It doesn't matter

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RI 4.6 First and Secondhand accounts

What type of account was the author personally there to experience the event.

• Firsthand Account

• Secondhand Account

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RI 4.6 First and Secondhand accounts

A description of an REAL event that is based on research and written by someone who was NOT there to witness the event is called a ______________________.

• Firsthand Account
• Secondhand Account
• Third Person Point of View
• First Person Point of View

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RI 4.6 First and Secondhand accounts

A firsthand account is a ______________ source

• primary
• secondary

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RI 4.6 First and Secondhand accounts

What account is the following passage?

"The people moved West because they wanted to search for gold. They hoped they would get land and become rich."

• firsthand account

• secondhand account

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RI 4.6 First and Secondhand accounts

What is an example of a secondhand account?

• Interview
• Textbook
• Autobiography
• All of the above

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RI 4.6 First and Secondhand accounts