Key Words to Determine First and Secondhand Accounts

The account will cover all of the facts from MULTIPLE perspectives.

• Firsthand

• Secondhand

The account uses words such as, "My," "We," and "I."

• Firsthand

• Secondhand

The account will only give one perspective (point of view)

• Firsthand

• Secondhand

This information is collected after the event happened

• Firsthand

• Secondhand

The account comes from someone who does research on the event.

• Firsthand

• Secondhand

This account will give the reader thoughts, emotions, and descriptions from ONE person

• firsthand

• secondhand

A textbook is this type of account

• firsthand

• secondhand

This information is from someone who was actually there

• firsthand

• secondhand

A journal entry is this type of account

• firsthand

• secondhand

A firsthand account about the earthquake in Haiti would be written by someone who.....

• was a news reporter

• was a volunteer who flew down the next week to help

• was standing on the street when it began to shake

• was a student at your school writing a report