Classroom+Activities

=__**Class Activity**__= Wednesday 9/21:

__**Mini Lesson:**__
Today in class we will be discussing the definitions for different types of sources. There are three types of sources.

__**1) Primary Source**__-The most common definition of a primary source is that which is written or produced in the time period. Primary sources are materials directly related to a topic by time or participation. These materials include letters, speeches, and diaries, newspaper articles from the time, oral history interviews, documents, photographs, artifacts, or anything else that provides contemporary accounts about a person or event. This definition also applies to primary sources found on the internet.

__**2) Secondary Source**__- Secondary sources are usually published books or articles by authors who were not eyewitnesses or participants in the historical event or period and who base their interpretation on primary sources, research, and study. These sources provide context for a historical event. For example, high school history textbooks, biographies, retrospective newspapers and other history books about a particular topic are secondary sources. This definition also applies to secondary sources found on the internet.

__**3) Tertiary Source**__-Tertiary sources are summaries and collections of primary and secondary sources. These sources provide ideas for topics and further investigation. Some examples are almanacs, encyclopedias, dictionaries, guidebooks, manuals, etc.

__**Work Time:**__
1) Students will be asked to divide into small groups of no more than 4 students. Each group will be given a historical book from the teacher. Students will turn to the end of the book where the **Bibliography** of sources is located.

EX) Appendix, Notes, illustrated credits etc.
 * Some books call the bibliography by different names BUT still is a collection of sources

One student per group will post the answers to questions located in the Discussion Post called **Sources**.

2) The teacher will show the class a sources graph. Students will fill in the graph according to what they have learned about different types of sources.

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