PPT-Using Primary Sources to Teach Literature

A Presentation by Dr Therese Rizzo thereserizzouncpedu 9105225802 How Can Primary Sources Change the Way We Read Fiction The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne A n ovel that uses Puritanism and the seventeenth century as a frame to critique nineteenthcentury hypocrisy and bigotry . Why use Primary Sources 1 Primary sources provide firsthand evidence of historical events which makes them seem more real This in turn will peak student interest 2 Primary sources force students to use critical thinking skills to interpret material Warwick History Dissertation. Questions. Do you need to use ‘primary sources’ and ‘archives’ in writing a dissertation?. What do these two terms mean?. How do you find this material?. How do you make effective use of this material in completing a dissertation?. Mr. Behm. Daniels Middle School. Raleigh, NC. November 2011. A primary source is an account created by someone who participated in or witnessed an event.. A secondary source is an account created by someone who researched and analyzed primary sources. It is one or more steps removed from a primary source.. Damian.Gordon@dit.ie. Important Link. www.damiantgordon.com. Module Description. Ideas, Researching, Writing…. Refining, Researching, Writing…. Researching. , Refining, . Writing. …. Module Description. Mills Kelly. George Mason University. tkelly7@gmu.edu. What Are We Going to Do Today?. Think about thinking like a historian. Watch some people think like a historian. Try to arrive at some partial agreement about what we think historical thinking is and how we can recognize it when we see it. Warwick History Dissertation. Questions. Do you need to use ‘primary sources’ and ‘archives’ in writing a dissertation?. What do these two terms mean?. How do you find this material?. How do you make effective use of this material in completing a dissertation?. UNIV 200 Spring 2015. Instructor: Meredith Spencer. Primary vs. Secondary. Primary Sources. O. riginal materials on which other research is based. Have . not been filtered through interpretation or evaluation. . How we learn about the past?. Two types of sources. Primary Sources. Secondary Sources. Primary Sources. Information about . an event that . comes directly from a person who experiences an event.. Secondary Sources. In many states and districts, teachers and their students are preparing to meet guidelines and take examinations that require close attention to single documents. The educational benefits from such an approach can be numerous: students learn to read closely, to interpret documents in historical context, to ground argument in concrete evidence, and to explicate large historical meanings from primary sources. But perhaps above all, such documents can be a stimulus to the imagination. They can “humanize” history. And once the imagination is engaged, there is no limit to learning. . dakota. . National History Day. http://www.pitchblackbaseball.com/northdakotabaseball.html. All historical resources are either Primary or Secondary . . . . . What . does that mean?. . What are Primary Sources?. Primary sources are things that were made long ago. . . Some primary sources are:. Photos. Letters. Videos. What are Primary Sources?. Here are more kinds of primary sources. Look at . Q What is a literature reviewStated most simply it is an overview of published and unpublished materials which help answer two fundamental questions12What is the current state of knowledge about these April, 8, 2022. 2. CONSISTENT EXPERIENCE ACROSS ALL GALE RESOURCES:. DATABASES. EBOOKS. PRIMARY SOURCES. 3. Gale Representatives . Jacob Daoud. Jacob.Daoud@cengage.com. . Academic Library Consultant . Detail of a miniature of a hermit at work on a manuscript, from the Estoire del Saint Graal, France . (Saint-Omer or Tournai?), c. 1315 – 1325, Royal MS 14 E III, f. 6v. USING SOURCES. While it can be useful to know the difference between types of sources, just like it can be useful to know the difference between different building materials, they mainly useful because of what you can do with them. .