Compare and Contrast First-Hand and Second-Hand Accounts

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

• Firsthand

• Secondhand

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CCSS.RL.3.10

CCSS.RL.3.6

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.10

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

• Firsthand

• Secondhand

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.3.10

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.5.10

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

• Firsthand

• Secondhand

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

This information is collected after the event happened

• Firsthand

• Secondhand

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CCSS.RI.3.7

CCSS.RI.4.7

CCSS.RL.3.7

CCSS.RL.4.7

CCSS.RL.5.7

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

• Firsthand

• Secondhand

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

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

• firsthand

• secondhand

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

A textbook is this type of account

• firsthand

• secondhand

This information is from someone who was actually there

• firsthand

• secondhand

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

A journal entry is this type of account

• firsthand

• secondhand

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.3.10

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.5.10

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

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6