Primary versus secondary sources pre-test

A document or physical object which was written or created during the time under study.

• Point of view

• Primary Source

• Historical record

• artifact

Information gathered by someone who did not take part in or witness an event.

• observation

• historian

• secondary source

• pont of view

Diaries/journals, letters, interview, photographs, speeches, magazine and newspaper articles published at the time of the event, memoirs, government documents, artifacts (buttons, posters, flags, etc.)

• Oral history

• examples of secondary sources

• examples of primary sources

• Primary source

Encyclopedias, Textbook and other nonfiction books, almanacs, field studies (statistics surveys), magazine and newspaper articles published after the event, biographies, etc.

• examples of secondary sources

• artifact

• secondary sourc

• point of view

information that is true and demonstrable

• artifact

• facts

• bias

• opinion

A personal view, attitude, or appraisal.

• oral history

• opinion

• credible

• point of view

The way someone understands or explains something

• oral history

• point of view

• interpretation

• historical record

The act of noticing and describing events or processes in a careful, orderly way.

• point of view

• observation

• secondary source

• interpretation

believable, reliable

• opinion

• credible

• artifact

• oral history

The perspective from which a story is told.

• interpratation

• opinion

• oral history

• point of view