Ask Who Made a Historical Source - Practice 1

Identify creator, date, audience and purpose before using a record.

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Identify creator, date, audience and purpose before using a record. A primary source can reveal a perspective without being complete or neutral. The documents below are invented classroom examples, not archival quotations.

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A seller's advertisement may reveal how the seller wanted a product viewed. Checking its claims requires other evidence.

Three schematic record forms: a page of writing, a landscape picture and an unmarked object. Form alone cannot establish accuracy; ask about creator, date, audience and purpose.

Would you believe it?

A climate anomaly can be zero during warm weather: zero means equal to the chosen reference value, not a temperature of zero degrees.

Question 1 Invented source 1: a shop advertisement. Whose stated perspective is directly represented? the seller the buyer everyone without exception

Question 2 Invented source 2: a mayor's speech. Whose stated perspective is directly represented? every resident everyone without exception the mayor

Question 3 Invented source 3: a worker's diary. Whose stated perspective is directly represented? everyone without exception the worker every employer

Question 4 Invented source 4: a traveler's letter. Whose stated perspective is directly represented? the traveler every local resident everyone without exception

Question 5 Invented source 5: a ship captain's log. Whose stated perspective is directly represented? every passenger everyone without exception the captain

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