Primary and Secondary Sources

Which of the following is NOT considered a primary source?

• a diary entry

• a biography

• a letter

• a photograph

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.5.10

Which of the following is NOT considered a secondary source?

• an encyclopedia entry

• a magazine article

• a textbook

• an interview

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

A primary source is created by someone who

• read about an event

• made up an event from their imagination

• was present at an event

• heard about an event from a witness

Which of these books is a secondary source?

• "I am Malala" by Malala Yousafzai

• "The Story of My Life" by Helen Keller

• "John Adams" by David McCullough

• "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Malcolm X

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

Which type of source can include an author's personal opinion or bias?

• primary sources

• secondary sources

• both

• neither

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

True or False: Secondary sources often draw from one or more primary sources

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Read the following excerpt from "Vincent van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist" by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan.

"Every Sunday on his way to church, young Vincent would pass the headstone carved with the name he shared. Did he feel as if his dead brother were the rightful Vincent, the one who would remain perfect in his parents' hearts, and that he was merely an unsatisfactory replacement? That might have been one of the reasons he spent so much of his life feeling like a lonely outsider."

What kind of source does this passage represent?

• Primary

• Secondary

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Read the following excerpt from "Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass

"I have observed this in my experience of slavery that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom."

What kind of source does this passage represent?

• primary

• secondary

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Martin Luther King wrote and published the autobiography of his earlier years.

• Primary

• Secondary

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Mary created a Google Slide Presentation about the history of The Chicago Fire and used primary sources to support her paper.

• Primary

• Secondary

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9