Primary and Secondary Sources
OPTICS
SOAPS
Point of View, Frame of Reference, and Bias
Vocab
100

Textbooks, biographies, articles, magazine articles, biographies. movies based on true stories, and lecture from a teacher.

What are Secondary sources examples?

100

What you see in a picture

What is Object?

100

Who the context is written for. 

Who is Audience?

100

An opinion or idea held by a person that influences them.

What is Point of View?

100

Being well-grounded, sound, or correct

What is Validity?

200

Diary, letters, auto-biographies, speeches, photographs, clothing, video of event, and interview with a witness

What are Primary source examples?

200

Who you see in a picture.

What is People?

200

The voice that tells the story.

Who is Speaker?

200

A way of looking at events from a particular time and place to understand how people thought and acted back then.

What is Frame of Reference?

200

Writing that has historical value because of long-term research use

What is Historical Record?

300

A news reporter documenting Hurricane Harvey as it was happening.

What is a Primary Source? 

300

A clear and final judgement based on evidence.

What is Conclusion?

300

The time, place, current situation or context in which the author is writing.

What is Occasion? 

300

Our thoughts or decisions in favor of certain ideas, people, or things, often influenced by our personal feelings or beliefs.

What is Bias?

300

Objects that are made, used, or modified by humans and give us information about life in the past.

What is Artifact?

400

On February 24, 1836, with the garrison surrounded and the Texan Army at the Alamo outnumbered, one of the most famous letters in American history was written by William B. Travis.  It was addressed, “To the People of Texas and All Americans in the World.”

What is a Primary Source?

400

Reasoning based on evidence.

What is Inference?

400

Why the author is writing a piece. 

What is Purpose?

400

Fox News in favor of reporting Donald Trump in a positive light.

What is Fox News bias towards Donald Trump?

400

A document or object created by people who were participants in or observed an event or time.

What is Primary Source?

500

A film company making a movie based on the people who were in the Titan submarine that exploded near the Titanic this past summer.

What is a Secondary Source?

500

An estimate of when the picture was created.

What is Time Frame?

500

The message of a written document that connects to a bigger picture.

What is Significance? 

500

Today, people consume their media on TVs, phones, laptops, streaming services, and gaming consoles.

What is the 2023 Frame of Reference for watching movies, shows, and videos?

500

A document or object that analyzes a primary source or sources.

What is Secondary Source?

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