Chapter 2 primary and secondary source

An object made or used by humans long ago

• artifact

• eyewitness

• memoir

• perspective

An account of a person's life written by another person

• autobiography

• biography

• memoir

• eyewitness

A collection of memories that someone writes about his or her own life

• memoir

• opinion

• perspective

• eyewitness

A thing that is known or proven to be true

• artifact

• biography

• fact

• opinion

A person who has personally seen something happen and can give a first hand description of it.

• perspective

• eyewitness

• fact

• secondary source

An account of a person's life written by that person

• autobiography

• biography

• perspective

• primary source

The way a person views or interprets events or issues; point of view

• opinion

• biography

• memoir

• perspective

Records of an event written or told by someone who was not actually there

• primary source

• biography

• secondary source

• opinion

An original record of a past event, usually created by someone who actually saw or participated in the event.

• primary source

• prespective

• secondary source

• secondary source

A view or judgement formed about something, not necessarily based on facts or knowledge

• secondary source

• artifact

• fact

• opinion