Do Now, January 6, 2015

• Remember your EXPECTATIONS• Write down homework, leave out agenda for

me to sign• Set up C-Notes, page 2– TOPIC: Primary and Secondary Sources– EQ: How do historians know what happened in the

past?

TIME MACHINE!!!

• Congratulations! You have just graduated college and now all your dreams are coming true!

• You do not want to give up your passion as a historian, and you are asked to write a short biography of a classmate of yours who is now equally successful!

• Describe the identity of your partner. What makes them who they are?

• Write about who they were at age 11 or 12.

• (5 minutes)

Share the biography

• Share the biography your wrote with your partner.

• Discuss and answer:Which more accurately described the identity of

the scholar (closer to the truth): the poem or the biography. Why?

How do historians learn about the past?

Resources!(also

known as sources)

Primary Resources

Secondary Resources

Primary Source

A primary resource, or primary source, is a document or artifact created by a person who was there at the time of the historical event being studied.

Secondary Source

• A secondary resource, or secondary source, is anything that tries to explain a historical event that is created by someone who was not actually present at the time.

• Secondary sources usually try to explain or describe primary sources.

How to tell the difference between Primary and Secondary Sources

1. Who wrote or created the source?2. What event does the source describe?3. Was the person who wrote or created the

source present at the event that the source describes?– If the answer is yes, it is a primary source.– If the answer is no, it is a secondary source.

What type of source are your bio poems?

1. Who wrote or created the source?2. What event does the source describe?3. Was the person who wrote or created the

source present at the event that the source describes?– If the answer is yes, it is a primary source.– If the answer is no, it is a secondary source.

What type of source are your biographies?

1. Who wrote or created the source?2. What event does the source describe?3. Was the person who wrote or created the

source present at the event that the source describes?– If the answer is yes, it is a primary source.– If the answer is no, it is a secondary source.

Primary or Secondary Source?

• A letter from Abigail Adams to former President John Adams

• The Diary of Anne Frank (written during World War II)

• Encyclopedia article about slavery• Your Social Studies text book• The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin• A biography of Benjamin Franklin

Primary or Secondary Schedules

Missions Are Established in East TexasGuided by St. Denis, with Angelina as interpreter, a

large Spanish force arrived in June, 1716 at the site of San Francisco de los Tejas. For the first time, Spanish families came to live in the forests of East Texas. The Native Americans were friendly and did not resist the Spanish effort. Within a year, the Spanish had established six missions and a small fort, a presidio they named Nuestra Senora de los Delores de los Tejas.

Primary or Secondary Source

“The Tejas are a very well governed people and plant large quantities of maize, beans, calabashes, cantaloupes and watermelons. They are very familiar with the fact that there is only one true God, that He is in Heaven…and certainly it is a pity that people are so rational, who plant crops and know there is a God, have no one to teach them the Gospel, especially when the province of Texas is so large and so fertile and has so fine a climate.”

--Report of explorer Alonso de Leon, May 1689

Primary or Secondary Source?These are all excerpts from the Diary of William Fairfax Gray, Virginia to

Texas, 1835-1837. Notice that he wrote them at different places at different times.

“He gave us a supper of very coarse fried bacon and pork, six boiled eggs,

tolerable coffee, but no cream or milk, Indian pone, with so much grease in it that I could not eat it.”

“The supper consisted of fried pork, coffee, coarse but good corn bread

and milk. I ate heartily.” “I got an excellent dinner of bacon, turnip tops, boiled eggs, coffee and

milk, with fine corn bread.”