Unit 4 Primary and Secondary Sources

Which of the following is NOT considered a primary source?

Which of the following is NOT considered a secondary source?

A primary source is created by someone who

The lyric “We know what it was like for Jane / ’Cause her interpretation comes from her brain” most likely describes a ________ source.

Which of these is a secondary source?

Which of these is a primary source?

Which type of source can include the author’s personal opinions or bias?

True or False: Secondary sources often draw from one or more primary sources.

Read the following excerpt from Vincent van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan.

Every Sunday on his way to church, young Vincent would pass the headstone carved with the name he shared. Did he feel as if his dead brother were the rightful Vincent, the one who would remain perfect in his parents' hearts, and that he was merely an unsatisfactory replacement? That might have been one of the reasons he spent so much of his life feeling like a lonely outsider, as if he didn't fit anywhere in the world.

Read the following excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass.

“I have observed this in my experience of slavery that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceased to be a man.”

How could you use this passage in your research?