Monday, November 3, 2008
Primary and Secondary Sources
A quick observation about primary sources. In one of my education classes, we refer to a primary sources as any firsthand account of an event in history. This might be picture, paintings, journals, music, etc. Is it acceptable to call a copy of a text or painting a primary source when compared to a textbook? Keep in mind that the students I would be interacting with will most likely be between the ages of nine and twelve.
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That's what I thought a primary source was. That's what I understood it to be in the book. That whole thing about flyers and pamphlets dropped from airplanes being the primary source while the people's account of what how the found it or how the felt when they read it was secondary.
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