Using Documents

7/11/11

-Activity #1:

1. Which document(s) do you think are reliable? Why?

1. Which document(s) do you think are unreliable? Why?
2. What are somethings that all documents agree on?
3. What are somethings that the documents disagree about?
4. Are there any other people that could have given a better account of what happened?

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Activity #2: Primary vs. Secondary sources:

1. What do you think the difference is between a primary and a secondary source?

2. How is an historian like a detective?

Activity#3: Let's Investigate:

(From Activity # 2: Revisions in purple )

1. What do you think the difference is between a primary and a secondary source?

Questions that should be asked about sources:

1. Who wrote or made it?
2. When was it written or made?
3. Where was it written or made?
4. Why was it written or made?
5. What point is the author or creator trying to make?
6. What evidence does this source contribute to your research?

• Explain why these questions are important to an historian's work?
• Identify which question you feel is the most important to an historians work and explain why

Activity #4: Types of primary and secondary sources.

Primary sources:	Secondary sources:

Resources used:
Sources used in History
Types of Primary sources.

Activity #5: Summarizing Activity 3-2-1:

• 3 things I've learned today are...
• 2 questions I still have about what I've learned today are...
• 1 thing I'd like to learn more about...

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7/12/11

Activity #6: Test what you know about Primary and Secondary sources:

Online lesson on Primary and Secondary sources