Thinking Skills

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Thinking Skills

• Primary and Secondary
• Sources

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What you will learn

• You will know what a source is
• You will know the difference between a primary
  and a secondary source
• You will understand how a historian uses a source
  to gain information 
• You will have some idea about how to analyze a
  source
• You will be able to see the information that can
  be gained from a picture source

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What Are Historical Sources?

• An historical source is something that tells us
  about history.
• It may be a document, a picture, a sound
  recording, a book, a cinema film, a television
  programme or an object.
• There are two main types of historical source
• Primary, and
• Secondary

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Primary Sources and Secondary Sources

• PRIMARY SOURCE is something that originates from
  the past. It is close to the original time of
  the event. 

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Primary Sources and Secondary Sources

• SECONDARY SOURCE is something that has been made
  recently about the past. They are far removed
  from the original event.

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Which are Primary and Secondary?Hint There are
five secondary

• Newspaper articles
• Novels
• Objects from the time
• Biographies
• Oral histories
• Textbooks
• Photographs
• Poems, art, music
• Speeches
• Dictionaries

• Autobiographies
• Diaries
• Documents
• History books
• Eyewitness accounts
• Film footage
• Laws
• Letters
• Encyclopedias

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Secondary
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Primary and Secondary SourcesFigure It Out

• Do you know the difference?
• Try the following exercises to see how well you
  understand Primary and Secondary Sources!

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Name the Source

• The Mona Lisa - Painted by Leonardo da Vinci in
  1506
• Primary or Secondary?
• Answer
• Primary

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Name the Source

• A piece of the original Magna Carta signed by
  King John in 1215
• Primary or Secondary?
• Answer
• Primary

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Name the Source

• A book about the Tudors written in 1999
• Primary or Secondary?
• Answer
• Secondary

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Name the Source

• A cup and saucer made in 1934
• Primary or Secondary?
• Answer
• Primary

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Name the Source

• A mug with WW II Planes made in 2007
• Primary or Secondary?
• Answer
• Secondary

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Name the Source

• A cartoon of Napoleon from 1805
• Primary or Secondary?
• Answer
• Primary

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Name the Source

• A cartoon of Bugs Bunny from 1956 playing
  Napoleon Bunny-Part
• Primary or Secondary?
• Answer
• Secondary

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Name the Source

• Coins from Constantine the Great, Roman emperor
  307 - 337 AD
• Primary or Secondary?
• Answer
• Primary

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Name the Source

• Poster Art of World War II made in 1941
• Primary or Secondary?
• Answer
• Primary

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Name the Source

• A website launched in 2000 listing Lesser Known
  Facts of the WW II
• Primary or Secondary?
• Answer
• Secondary

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Assignment

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