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This product contains assignments to review primary and secondary sources (Virginia Studies VS.1 ). Activities include sorting, identifying, and completing graphic organizers about primary and secondary sources. Use as classwork, homework, or an assessment- independently, whole group, or small group! Enjoy!
K. Jennison
Name________________________________________________#________Date__________ VA Studies Review: VS. 1 Primary and Secondary Sources
Directions: Sort the sources and the characteristics in the appropriate circle. Any sources or characteristics that are both primary and secondary sources may be written in the center circle.
Sources/Characteristics newspaper interview architecture photography
diary textbook autobiography biography speech video tape encyclopedia original artwork
words written after an event has occurred
actual words of people who witness an event
provide evidence about history
Go for it! Add two examples or characteristics of your own to each section of the
Venn diagram! Place a box around them.
Rate your confidence on this assignment: I got it! Working on it! Help please!
Primary Sources Secondary Sources
Name____________________________________________________#________Date_____________
VA Studies Review: VS. 1 Primary and Secondary Sources Directions: Color all the primary sources red. Color the secondary sources blue
a newspaper article about
the settlement of Jamestown
John Smith’s diary
a photograph of the f irst
steam engine
the orig inal map of
Christopher Columbus ’ route across the Atlantic
Ocean
an orig inal paint ing of
Pocahontas
an encyclopedia entry on
the hardships in the Jamestown colony
a monument of
Christopher Newport
Abraham Lincoln’s
Gettysburg Address speech
a biography on Robert E.
Lee
an autobiography of
Ulysses S. Grant
a video of a reenactment of Patrick Henry ’s “Give
me l iberty, or give me death” speech
a Virginia Studies
textbook
a webpage on the Civil
War
a magazine article on the
regions of Virginia
a song by your classmate
about the American Revolution
a dictionary entry on “abol itionist”
a memoir on King James
a nonfiction book on
Martin Luther King Jr.
Go for it! List two or more primary and secondary sources of your own! Primary: _____________________________________________________________ Secondary: ___________________________________________________________
Rate your confidence on this assignment: I got it! Working on it! Help please!
Name________________________________________________#________Date__________ VA Studies Review: VS. 1 Primary and Secondary Sources
Directions: Sort the sources and the characteristics in the appropriate circle. Any sources or characteristics that are both primary and secondary sources may be written in the center circle.
Sources/Characteristics newspaper interview architecture photography
diary textbook autobiography biography speech video tape encyclopedia original artwork
words written after an event has occurred
actual words of people who witness an event
provide evidence about history
Go for it! Add two examples or characteristics of your own to each section of the
Venn diagram! Place a box around them.
Rate your confidence on this assignment: I got it! Working on it! Help please!
Primary Sources Secondary Sources
• Diary • Speech • Interview • Video tape • Architecture • Autobiography • Photograph • Original artwork • Actual words of
people who witness an event
• Newspaper • Textbook • Encyclopedia • Biography • Words written
after an event has occurred
Provide evidence about history
Court record
memoir
Nonfiction book
dictionary
Name____________________________________________________#________Date_____________
VA Studies Review: VS. 1 Primary and Secondary Sources Directions: Color all the primary sources red. Color the secondary sources blue
a newspaper article about
the settlement of Jamestown
John Smith’s diary
a photograph of the f irst
steam engine
the orig inal map of
Christopher Columbus ’ route across the Atlantic
Ocean
an orig inal paint ing of
Pocahontas
an encyclopedia entry on
the hardships in the Jamestown colony
a monument of
Christopher Newport
Abraham Lincoln’s
Gettysburg Address speech
a biography on Robert E.
Lee
an autobiography of
Ulysses S. Grant
a video of a reenactment of Patrick Henry ’s “Give
me l iberty, or give me death” speech
a Virginia Studies
textbook
a webpage on the Civil
War
a magazine article on the
regions of Virginia
a song by your classmate
about the American Revolution
a dictionary entry on “abol itionist”
a memoir on King James
a nonfiction book on
Martin Luther King Jr.
Go for it! List two or more primary and secondary sources of your own! Primary: _____________________________________________________________ Secondary: ___________________________________________________________
Rate your confidence on this assignment: I got it! Working on it! Help please!
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All answers have come from the VDOE VA Studies curriculum framework.
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