E = EEconomic•MoneyMoney• Business• Finances• Trade• Jobs• Budget• Banks• Credit/Loans• Stocks & Bonds• Taxes

S = SSocial•Culture/ CustomsCulture/ Customs• Traditions• Religion• Customs• Community• Holidays

•PowerPower• Government• Laws & Regulations• Elections• Authority (Military & Police)

P = PPolitical

N= eNNvironmental•NatureNature• Earth• Pollution• Sustainability• Resources

Imagine you read the following headlines…

What category would you place them? Be able to explain why!

Update on the BP Oil Spill Update on the BP Oil Spill in the in the

Gulf of MexicoGulf of Mexico• eNvironmental• Has to do with pollution

Stock Market has Risen Stock Market has Risen 28% 28%

since the end of 2008since the end of 2008• Economic• Has to do with business

Calendar of Calendar of Holiday/Christmas EventsHoliday/Christmas Events in in

GeorgetownGeorgetown• Social• Has to do with religion and

community

District Attorney, Bradley District Attorney, Bradley prosecutes double prosecutes double

homicidehomicide• Political• Has to do with an elected official• Has to do with enforcing laws

More immigrants moving to More immigrants moving to

Central TexasCentral Texas• Social• Has to do with changes in the

community• Has to do with the mixing of cultures

Economic

Social

Political eNvironmental

PRIMARY SOURCESPRIMARY SOURCES• DEFINITIONDEFINITION: Info, pieces of : Info, pieces of

writing, artwork that are writing, artwork that are ORIGINALORIGINAL to a specific to a specific TIMETIME & & PLACEPLACE

• EXAMPLESEXAMPLES: Presidential speech, : Presidential speech, journal entry, photo, political journal entry, photo, political cartoon, artwork, map, etc.cartoon, artwork, map, etc.

• NON-EXAMPLES:NON-EXAMPLES: Fictional Fictional account of an event, history account of an event, history books, report given by someone books, report given by someone who was not therewho was not there

THINK – PAIR- SHARE

• DEFINITIONDEFINITION: Pieces of writing, : Pieces of writing, artwork that interpret or fictionalize artwork that interpret or fictionalize ANOTHER ANOTHER TIMETIME & & PLACEPLACE

• EXAMPLES:EXAMPLES: Fictional account of an Fictional account of an event, history books, report given event, history books, report given by someone who was not there.by someone who was not there.

• NON-EXAMPLESNON-EXAMPLES: Presidential : Presidential speech, journal entry, photo, speech, journal entry, photo, political cartoon, artwork, map, etc.political cartoon, artwork, map, etc.

SECONDARY SOURCESSECONDARY SOURCES

PRIMARY PRIMARY or or SECONDARY?SECONDARY?• The author of the Twilight series

writes a new book set in the time of the Roman Empire?

• SECONDARYSECONDARY• Photo of the Bastrop Fires (Labor Day

2011)

• PRIMARYPRIMARY• Ask.com• SECONDARYSECONDARY• Map from the Lewis & Clark

Expedition• PRIMARYPRIMARY

• Interview with a survivor of Hurricane Sandy • PRIMARYPRIMARY• Song about Viet Nam by a veteran who served there• PRIMARYPRIMARY• Statue made as a memorial to President Washington• SECONDARYSECONDARY• Email from Texas’s Governor Perry to Louisiana’s Governor

Jindal about Hurricane Katrina• PRIMARYPRIMARY• Georgetown Mayor’s speech about public parks• PRIMARYPRIMARY• College textbook about the Civil War• SECONDARYSECONDARY

• Map of Germany used by General Eisenhower in WWII • PRIMARYPRIMARY• Rumor about a student • SECONDARYSECONDARY• Video game about battles in the Revolutionary War • SECONDARYSECONDARY• T-Shirt with a picture of President Lincoln • SECONDARYSECONDARY• Photograph of President Kennedy and his son in the

White House • PRIMARYPRIMARY• Novel about a Holocaust survivor • SECONDARYSECONDARY